Ask HN: GitHub Download Hash Change?

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  • usrsctp

    A portable SCTP userland stack

  • Today, an issue was raised in one project I use, because their build system rejected an invalid sha256sum while downloading a dependency from a GitHub zip file.

    The offending dependency is usrsctp (https://github.com/sctplab/usrsctp) at commit 9d6b99b:

    https://github.com/sctplab/usrsctp/archive/9d6b99b10a70f7a63d21cd80d03c353da9ac19d3.zip

    This file's sha256sum has always been

        d9b7b3350ea0be2a3d1437e404d4852df741c4984b734729c5edc337ff4b7611

  • nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  • GitHub archives are known to be unstable. Packages in the Nix package manager calculates the hash for the unpacked contents of GitHub archives for this precise reason.

    https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/32997

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