On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:47:40PM +0100, Jaromil wrote: > > re all, > > any thoughts about this new systemd-made thing that freedesktop > immediately "standardized" (whatever is their procedure for that, > likely smoking cigars among old-boys or so) > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html > > its easy to replace by a script of course that's not the problem (the > manpage suggests to use a systemd application for that, not a joke!) > but I'm curious if anyone has some background and thoughts about this > > AFAIK chromium started checking it and its absence on Devuan Beowulf > is reported as an error, so we may have to work around this. > > but first things first: do we want /etc/machine-id? and how? >
Jaromil, this is currently managed by eudev in devuan and, IIRC, it is simply regenerated as a random ID at each boot. I guess it's still there because it is used by several things, including session-management-related stuff. We had a discussion on IRC with Mark (LeePen) about that several weeks ago, and IIRC we concluded that keeping it around but re-generating it at boot was the way to avoid breakage. 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). My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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