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: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:44:34 +0200
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tag 745840 pending
thanks

On 04/28/2014 12:05 PM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> git can track empty files fine. [...] I think you're thinking of empty
> *directories*, which git doesn't track (because it doesn't track
> directories at all)?

indeed, thanks; no problem with 0-byte file then.. applying.

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