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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: lichengtai@gmail.com, 52591@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52591: downloading from software archives as default even if version is wrong
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:06:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k76n55q.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c18852ca39e53a40cf6cdf0f3c661354d762907.camel@telenet.be>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-18  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-17 23:40 bug#52591: downloading from software archives as default even if version is wrong Andy Tai
2021-12-17 23:58 ` Maxime Devos
2021-12-18  0:06   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2021-12-18  0:23     ` Andy Tai
2021-12-18  1:51       ` Leo Famulari
2021-12-18  1:57         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-12-18  0:06 ` Leo Famulari
2021-12-18  0:07 ` raingloom

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