From: Dave Voutila <dv@sisu.io>
Subject: Re: a simple port, but i'm too stupid
To: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Cc: <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:17:56 -0400

Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> writes:

> You can probably just BUILD_DEPENDS on sysutils/e2fsprogs, I think that's basically the same uuid library as in
> utils-linux.
>

Sadly it doesn't appear to be or the way e2fsprogs installs it, it
doesn't work. /shrug

> Alternatively you can often patch to use the uuid functions we have in libc without too much trouble.

That might be a good option now that you mention it. I'll take a
peek. Either UEFI or the edk2 implementation seems full of GUIDs and i
don't see why there would be anything special in the utils-linux
version.


-dv