uuid not getting generated until after install

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Mon May 12 10:36:59 PDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 13:25 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> In Fedora right now, dbus doesn't generate a machine uuid until the
> next time the system bus is started. This causes a problem for
> anything that wants to use the message bus during package %post
> scripts on fresh build roots.  

No, this is a packaging bug and packages with %post relying on a message
bus are simply broken: you just _can't_ assume there's a message bus
running at all; %post may run as part of image creation in a chroot/jail
or whatever.

     David




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