Support using the uuidgen command if the uuid command is not available.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/bugs/configure_script_should_detect_uuidgen_instead_of_just_uuid.mdwn b/doc/bugs/configure_script_should_detect_uuidgen_instead_of_just_uuid.mdwn
index 83d1ae664..2b9c77367 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/configure_script_should_detect_uuidgen_instead_of_just_uuid.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/configure_script_should_detect_uuidgen_instead_of_just_uuid.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
-On RHEL5 (and clones) systems uuidgen is available as an alternative to uuid, the configure script fails, it should probably detect either uuid or uuidgen, or let the user decide? - also uuidgen behaves differently from uuid on debian.
+On RHEL5 (and clones) systems uuidgen is available as an alternative to
+uuid, the configure script fails, it should probably detect either uuid or
+uuidgen, or let the user decide? - also uuidgen behaves differently from
+uuid on debian.
+
+> uuidgen is now supported. --[[Joey]] [[done]]
diff --git a/doc/install.mdwn b/doc/install.mdwn
index bad1d9f25..732660c50 100644
--- a/doc/install.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install.mdwn
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ To build and use git-annex, you will need:
 * MissingH: <http://github.com/jgoerzen/missingh/wiki>
 * pcre-light: <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pcre-light>
 * `uuid`: <http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/>
+  (or uuidgen from util-linux)
 * `xargs`: <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/findutils/>
 * `rsync`: <http://rsync.samba.org/>
 * Then just [[download]] git-annex and run: `make; make install`