On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:05:52AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 at 13:23:48 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > Programs may use this ID to identify the host with a globally unique > > ID in the network, which does not change even if the local network > > configuration changes. Due to this and its greater length, it is a > > more useful replacement for the gethostid(3) call that POSIX > > specifies. > > I've wondered whether to ask base-files or some similarly core package > to provide /etc/machine-id so that it exists even on non-systemd systems; > it would be easy to populate from something like > "sed s/-// /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid" on Linux, and perhaps > /dev/[u]random on non-Linux. Do you think that's a good idea? > It would have the side-effect of resolving this bug.
That seems like a great idea. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org