Hey Santiago, Santiago Vila [2014-04-28 17:51 +0200]: > For now, /etc/machine-id is a configuration (or state) file for the > systemd package. Documentation about machine-id even says that > removing the file on reboots is mostly harmless (you could have a > different machine-id every time the machine boots and nothing bad > would happen). > > So, my recommendation (if you don't just ignore piuparts report) > is that you actually remove it at purge.
Santiago Vila [2014-04-29 10:55 +0200]: > If the only solution is not to remove machine-id, then piuparts is > wrong and keeping machine-id in the system should be allowed. This seems reasonable to to me for the time being, while systemd isn't mandatory. Thus not creating it in base-files would mean that programs cannot rely on /etc/machine-id and that we need a workaround for running systemd's tests during build, but we have that already. I think piuparts should be adjusted either way, and add machine-id to the list of "unowned system-wide config files" like hostname or default/locale. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
