Package: base-files Version: 8 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
/etc/machine-id should probably be symlinked to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html says: "The simple configuration file format of /etc/machine-id originates in the /var/lib/dbus/machine-id file introduced by D-Bus. In fact, this latter file might be a symlink to /etc/machine-id." The /var/lib/dbus/machine-id file is randomly generated by dbus-uuidgen, typically invoked by the post-install script of a D-Bus package. It can also be a symlink to /etc/machine-id. So these two files should be identical yes? Right now I have a system that this is not the case: debian8:~# cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id f2cbc914bd90a387226fdd590010b30e debian8:~# cat /etc/machine-id 85779930452d4a6682d24fef13ffa0c8 what I did was remove /etc/machine-id and rebooted the system, which caused this file to be regenerated. Although /var/lib/dbus/machine-id stays the same, which could potensially make software missmatch depending on which file it looks for. There might be a reason to why there are two uniqe files but from where I stand now It would be better if /etc/machine-id was a symlink to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id. debian8:~# dbus-uuidgen 91766c951b045eb821a146435540cd13 -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-042stab106.4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:4.1.1+dfsg-1 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
