Re: git: 62a149bf6219 - main - Add new rc: machine_id to generate /etc/machine-id

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In reply to: Tobias C. Berner: "Re: git: 62a149bf6219 - main - Add new rc: machine_id to generate /etc/machine-id"
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From: Matteo Riondato <matteo_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:39:51 UTC

On 2022-12-24 at 03:39 EST, Tobias C. Berner <tcberner@freebsd.org> wrote:

>Moin moin
>
>I think it tries to solve the same problem of giving the machine a unique id.
>
>From the linux man page [1]
>
>       The machine ID does not change based on local or network 
>       configuration or when hardware is replaced. Due to this and its 
>       greater length, it is a more useful replacement for the 
>       gethostid(3) call that POSIX specifies.
>

Does this make or should it make hostid obsolete?
If yes, then changes are needed to deorbit hostid. If not, why not?

Thanks,
Matteo