The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > This isn't the first time I've discovered that some aspect of a Debian > system would actually need to be cleared and re-generated when that > system is cloned, well after the point where it would have been easy for > me to address that need. (Fortunately, although I've moved in the > direction of cloned Debian systems multiple times in the past, so far > all of those have petered out before reaching production. I still want > to change that at some point, however.)
I'm only vaguely aware of this package and how it works, but doesn't cloud-init have some support for customizing things that need to change when cloning an image? Does it already handle machine-id? Maybe we just need to popularize it and explain better how to add additional hooks for the needs of other packages? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
