[OmniOS-discuss] Fix for no UUID in Kayak-installed BE?

[Volker A. Brandt]

Hi Dan!


> Given the "uuidgen" binary has WAY too many libraries, and the uniqueness of
> the UUID doesn't need to be super-special for the installed BE, I put
> together this patch using the existing miniroot tools: 

BTW your generated UUIDs do not comply with RFC 4122 section 4.4. :-)

I have thought a bit more about this.  We have just installed an entire
operating system, and it's just sitting there in /mnt.  Why can't we
just do a

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/lib:/mnt/usr/lib /mnt/usr/bin/uuidgen ...

?


Regards -- Volker
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