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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="206.74.132.139"
+ subject="comment 5"
+ date="2014-02-06T17:10:59Z"
+ content="""
+Ok, I missed that uuid needs network-info. Actually, git-annex does not use that part of uuid (it does not put IP info in its uuids). There is a past version of uuid that did not depend on network-info. Perhaps you should first install it: `cabal install uuid-1.2.14`
+
+As far as it not finding or liking the sha* commands, it may be that it is not able to parse the OpenBSD output, or doesn't see the output it expects when testing them. These commands are only used as a minor optimisation, if not available it will fall back to using a haskell implementation which is a few percent slower (or faster) than the linux coreutils version of sha*. I don't know how the speeds compare on OpenBSD, but it's probably not worth worrying about.
+"""]]