Bug#745840: live-build: please truncate /etc/machine-id instead of deleting it

To: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: 745840@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#745840: live-build: please truncate /etc/machine-id instead of deleting it
From: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:39:37 +0200
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On 04/25/2014 08:27 PM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> systemd automatically re-creates it during early boot -
> no problem so far.

instead of truncating, would also 'echo "" > /etc/machine-id' work? this
has the advantage to not break if people are using git (as git cannot
track empty files).

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