Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (202 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Ralf Lang wrote:
> > while packaging horde4  I noticed the rpmlint warning
> > horde4.noarch: W: non-etc-or-var-file-marked-as-conffile 
> > /srv/www/htdocs/horde4/config/conf.php.dist
> >
> > If config files are allowed to live in /var (where web apps used to live in 
> > old times) why are they not allowed in /srv ?
>
> Good topic. Why do web apps not adhere to the traditional layout we
> are used to anyways?
> /srv is a mess. It mixes vendor files with user files, config files
> with static data, binaries with state databases etc.
> This is not specific to horde of course but let's use it as example.
> Why not keep the default document root /srv/www/htdocs clean and put
> horde to e.g. /usr/share/horde4, it's config files to /etc/horde4
> and it's database or whatever variable data it has to
> /var/lib/horde4?

Looking at Fedora they do exactly that. Taking phpMyAdmin as random
sample their package does not contain excessive patches or symlink
tricks to make it work. So getting a clean /srv isn't that hard at
all.

cu
Ludwig

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