On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 02:23:20PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > but first things first: do we want /etc/machine-id? and how?
> this is currently managed by eudev in devuan and, IIRC, it is simply > regenerated as a random ID at each boot. > we concluded that keeping it around but re-generating it at boot was the > way to avoid breakage. And I say you're 100% right here. The machine-id: * is a privacy issue * gets broken when cloned systems are involved but defusing it by re-generating every boot works around both of the above while requiring no patches to affected software. > Any thoughts on the matter are appreciated, but concrete insight on > the ins and outs are much more useful I guess (read: please let's > avoid a useless uninformed flame about that :P). Be realistic... avoiding an uninformed flame would be against our rules :) Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Have you accepted Khorne as your lord and saviour? ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
