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

[Armijn Hemel]

On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 13:01 -0400, Sean E. Russell wrote:

> > 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.

Yep. You will get this with any system, so I guess we will have to live
with that.

You can fix this by replacing the hash sum with the hash sum that was
expected in the Nix expression for GHC.

armijn

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