[systemd-devel] 4 failing tests

[Ramkumar Ramachandra]

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
> <artagnon at gmail.com> 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