machine-id:
I wasn't aware of its existence until dzz mentioned it here in the refracta forum
sid-refracta-and-refracta-tools-t292.htmland, from my reading, seems like its path may vary (across debian releases? across the various debian-based distros?)
so the post-install routine of dpkg looks for /
var/lib/dbus/machine-id or /
etc/machine-idThe answer to "Anywhere else it's stored?" should be "no". However, some installed package may have, in the spirit of backward compatibility, created a symlink (probably in the etc dir, pointing to the var/lib/dbus path)
Do we really need machine-id? (Yes. d-bus expects/demands it)
Doesn't its presence represent a privacy/fingerprinting issue? (i worry that it does, but except for a few workaround-ers posting to Gentoo forums, few people seem to care)
After excluding machine-id, per dzz's October post, I didn't encounter any errors when booting a snapshot...
...yet (but) I don't recall finding a call to "dbus-uuidgen" (creates machine-id, if missing) within the refracta init scripts.
(zenity:27752): GLib-WARNING **: /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.33.12+really
Really? Yeah, really. Howabout just dump the ongoing headache of coding fallbacks to accommodate zenity.
bloat-alert-zenity-vs-yad-wheezy-t148-20.htmlThe refracta2usb gui script opens a too-narrow-for-the-content dialog window and the devicename + path lines become wordwrapped.
Where are you seeing this? And which version? I'm not getting that with zenity or yad.
Where == dzz's Dec10 refracta sid, which contains "refracta2usb 0.9.4e 2013-12-02"
Not specifying the font at all seems to disable the font size setting
I never considered that. Thanks for the insight.
Exactly what did you do? The /tmp of the running system is not copied
Do? Nothing.
My comment might (should) have been:
From examining the refracta2usb script along with the r2u_exclude.list
...it's not apparent that the script already, by default, excludes the /tmp path.
Suggestion: add documentation to clarify (?inline comment within r2u_exclude.list)
# refracta2usb 0.9.4e 2013-12-02
# . . .
# Copy system from the running live system
copy_livemount () {
whoosh, I still fail to understand how the script manages to exclude the tmp path