Re: [PATCH] image-postproc-extension: empty mechine-id

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:48:31 +0200
schrieb Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>:

> Hello Bao Cheng,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 10:57:36AM +0000, Su, Bao Cheng wrote:
> > According to manpage of debian machine-id @
> > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/systemd/machine-id.5.en.html,
> > /etc/machine-id should be empty instead of removing.
> > 
> > Also according to above manpage, the dbus machine-id is copied to
> > /etc/machine-id if systemd machine-id is empty. However, the dbus
> > machine-id is also created during isar building, which stays the
> > same for every machine using the same image.
> > 
> > So here instead of removing, empty this file, and the mechine id
> > will be regenerated at the first boot. Also remove the dbus
> > machine-id to prevent copying.  
> 
> Thanks, applied to next.

Mhh the commit message looks pretty ugly. Probably because v2 was not
actually done with git format-patch.

I would suggest to clean that up and force-push next.

Henning

> I couldn't observe your original
> "sys-subsystem-net-devices-multi-user.device timeouts" problem. Is it
> reproducible with stock Isar? Which architecture?
> 
> Also, at least for amd64, the machine id is only generated
> temporarily. The file is not replaced since /etc is read-only at that
> moment. So we have to revisit Claudius's rw patch. This works for arm
> since it is already rw.
> 
> With kind regards,
> Baurzhan.
>