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Re: Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)



Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org> (17/09/2012):
> When we added this code to netcfg during GSOC I first also feared that
> and we even had our own very minimal UUID implementation at some
> point.  But we then found out that libuuid is already included in the
> initrd because it's a dependency of util-linux-udeb (blkid) which is
> needed for udev-udeb. So we decided to reuse this instead of adding
> more code.
> 
> Also in my amd64 build:
> $ ls -lh ./tmp/netboot/tree/lib/libuuid.so.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 gaudenz gaudenz 19K Jun 23 11:06 ./tmp/netboot/tree/lib/libuuid.so.1
> 
> So here it's much smaller...

Michael mentioned that on #debian-gnome:
  /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid

And there you go? (I checked it's indeed available within d-i.)

Mraw,
KiBi.

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