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From: HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sha256: base32 VS nix-base32
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 12:34:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2266410.u2mMVqzJfJ@aleksandar-ixtreme-m5740> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvmzc6fi.fsf@gnu.org>

Thanks, that answers my question then. Maybe it would be worth adding a note 
in the manual for future users?

On Sonntag, 9. September 2018 12:26:57 CEST you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de> skribis:
> > When using `guix download` and `guix hash` there are (among other) the
> > formats `nix-base32` and `base32`. It appears that when writing a package
> > definition I have to use the former with the `(base32 "...")` expression.
> > This really confused be because I thought that "base32" means "base32" on
> > both sides. What is the deal with this?
> 
> Package definitions expect a nix-base32-formatted string, even though
> the macro is called ‘base32’ and not ‘nix-base32’.  Internally Guix uses
> ‘nix-base32’ exclusively so you shouldn’t have to worry about it.
> 
> HTH,
> Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2018-09-09 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-05 15:35 sha256: base32 VS nix-base32 HiPhish
2018-09-09 10:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-09 10:34   ` HiPhish [this message]

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