On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 11:08:01AM +0000, Lorem Ipsum wrote:
> $ sha256sum 3.12.tar.gz
> f4a32169e6c0cb939971da2732e4d67c6e2e649506da1b55bfc94963a26280ff
> 
> This is where I'm stuck.  I know that the hash needs to be base32 and
> that the hash returned by ~sha256sum~ is not that.  I would think this
> wouldn't matter since the Guile script calls ~base32~.

The hash needs to be calculated with `guix hash`, not `sha256sum`. For
example, `guix hash 3.12.tar.gz`.