[Nix-dev] Checksum errors trying to install ghc-6.6.1

[Sean E. Russell]

On Saturday 02 June 2007 09:01, you wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 08:17 -0400, Sean E. Russell wrote:
...
> > Is there a way to tell nix-env to ignore the md5 sum check?
>
> There is, but it is not the right thing to do. A did a short

And that would be... how?

> investigation. The Nix expression file for ghc-6.6.1 was added on May 6
> by Andres. It seems that the GHC tarball was last changed on May 26. So,
> the file (and thus the checksum) was changed, but the name wasn't, which
> is why this "error" occurs. Time to blame the GHC people for not having
> proper release management :-P

Ok.  But blaming the GHC people doesn't help me fix the problem.  Any system 
that depends on downloads from third parties, and then depends on hash sums 
*will* inevitably encounter this problem.

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