Re: Generating new IDs for cloning (was Re: duplicate popularity-contest ID)
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 4:59 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> 1. Delete the contents of /etc (all of it)
> 2. If a package doesn't find its "stuff" in /etc it regenerates it from
> defaults.
There is still way too much stuff that defaults to installing
important files in /etc (default config settings, init scripts etc).
It would be nice to have a way to tell all postinsts to not generate
system-specific files (like machine-id or SSH keys) but do generate
caches. Cleaning up after postinsts seems like a hack to me.
There are some notes on reproducible installs here, IIRC Tails and
Webconverger have achieved that for their live images:
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls
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pabs
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