Package: base-files
Version: 7.2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
D-Bus, systemd and other programs use /etc/machine-id. Given that this
file is per-machine and very central, it should live in base-files.
The attached patch creates the file unless it already exists. The patch
works on Linux and should work (untested) on kFreeBSD (since linprocfs
emulates the uuid file). The uuid file should be present in all Linux
kernels since it lives in the same source code file that provides
/dev/{u,}random :). On platforms where the uuid file does not exist we
just do nothing for now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armel
i386
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii gawk [awk] 1:4.0.1+dfsg-2.1
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
>From aaea1b768923ef7453207590fd250cc0e7f739b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:20:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Generate /etc/machine-id if it does not yet exist.
---
debian/postinst.in | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/debian/postinst.in b/debian/postinst.in
index 778a698..c82f941 100644
--- a/debian/postinst.in
+++ b/debian/postinst.in
@@ -122,3 +122,9 @@ if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl "6.10"; then
install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/staff-group-for-usr-local \
/etc/staff-group-for-usr-local
fi
+
+# D-Bus, systemd and other programs want a static machine identifier in
+# /etc/machine-id, so create one if it does not exist.
+if [ ! -e /etc/machine-id ] && [ -e /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid ]; then
+ sed 's/-//g' /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid > /etc/machine-id
+fi
--
1.9.0
