Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Where is the creation code? The systemd-machine-id-setup binary does >> _not_ create it, and my patch proposes to fix that. > > We overmount an empty file if needed. We do not want to create > anything if we do not know what to do, we should just fail with an > explaination, not mess around in the system!
I see. >> My patch only proposes that systemd-machine-id-setup creates the file; >> nothing else. > > Right, I see and understand what and why you are trying to do that, > but I don't think system should do that. > > Booting should not create essential files in /etc which will be > persistent and change the behaviour of the system. My stupidity. Please ignore my previous patch. I've sent out a new one to skip the tests dependent on /etc/machine-id if it's not present. Ram _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
