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bug#52591: downloading from software archives as default even if version


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: bug#52591: downloading from software archives as default even if version is wrong
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:06:48 +0100

Maxime Devos 写道:
You forgot to update the sha256 hash.

That's it, in a nutshell!

which at this time shall fail as I have not updated the hash checksum.

No, that's the reason it *succeeds*!

Guix is mostly content-addressed, meaning that the hash identifies a file. If you don't change the hash, you're not asking for a new file, by definition. URLs are like directions (hence: ‘locator’), not identifiers.

You can easily generate a bogus-but-valid hash by negating the first digit, which (in nix-base32 at least), can only be either 0 or 1. Guix will then print the correct hash of whatever it found at the URI you specified.

OK to close as NOTABUG?

Kind regards,

T G-R

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