[systemd-devel] [PACKAGERS] Packaging systemd >= 20

[Mike Kazantsev]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 06:44:13 +0300
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at mail.ru> wrote:

> 
> What do you mean - optional? Unless d-bus is patched to look at
> /etc/machine-id (or is informed about this location by some other
> means) it will never even know about this file. So symlink
> /var/lib/dbus/machine-id -> /etc/machine-id is actually a
> prerequisite.
> 

systemd-machine-id-setup seem to initialize /etc/machine-id from dbus
id, thus contents of these files are equal, whether you symlink them or
not.

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