From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Be careful with PyPI
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:47:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y7sP3cwfJBnt4jKp@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfgnivbd.fsf@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 03:36:38PM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> If the origin does not exist upstream, then Guix try other servers as
> fallback. For instance,
[...]
> downloading from https://tarballs.nixos.org/sha256/1j8bsqzh49vjdxy6l1k4iwax5vpjzniynyd041xjavdzvfii1dlh ...
> One potential issue is that the tarballs.nixos.org is using the checksum
> as lookup key. Therefore, when modifying only the version and not the
> checksum, the something is returned with an inconsistent name/content.
Many of us discover this behaviour the hard way. It's not just about
PyPi: this can happen with any download, unless something changed.
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
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2023-01-06 14:36 Be careful with PyPI zimoun
2023-01-08 18:47 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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