[RFC] Making D-Bus suitable for being run early during boot

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 09.07.10 18:54, Thiago Macieira (thiago at kde.org) wrote:

> Em Sexta-feira 09 Julho 2010, às 18:14:36, Lennart Poettering escreveu:
> > Well, the problem with /lib is is that it belongs to the package manager
> > and is supposed to be identical on all machines. If we would move it
> > there it would be the only file there which would have a different
> > content on all machines beneath that directory. And we'd have to patch
> > the various package manager so that they don't whine about this.
> 
> I'm not sure I agree with you.
> 
> There are definitely files that are managed by tools in /lib, like those managed 
> by depmod in /lib/modules/`uname -r`. In fact, the machine-id file would be 
> modified even *fewer* times times than those -- think of dkms running when 
> modules are updated.

Hmm, interesting point. 

But then again, those files are only updated during package
installation. OTOH machine-id is created on first boot (and probably
rightly so), and /lib is even less likely to be writable than /etc...

Also, Marc-Andre pointed me to the fact that the SSH server keys are
usually also generated at first boot and stored in /etc. Maybe we should
just treatthe machine id the same?

Lennart

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