On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 17:53, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Nick Pierpoint wrote: > > Predictably enough, instead of starting with a sensible practical issue, > > the issue that's really getting to me is under what directory structure > > to keep the repository? > [snip] > > Basically trying to follow FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs): > > Currently its all under /opt/media so you'll understand my predicament. > > /usr/share/multimedia: seems to fit best with the FHS > > If it's part of the OS (managed by RPM), then yeah. Otherwise, you're > probably best off with /usr/local/share/whatever. That's pretty much the > point of local. good point. > Another FHS 2.3 option would be /srv/multimedia, since your purpose is to > share this data out over some network protocol. Haven't come across the /srv option before. Appears to be a sensible place - also appears to be better suited to ftp and http directories than the traditional /var/ftp and /var/http -- nick
