[Nix-dev] Qhull 2012.1 distribution out-of-date for nix

[Brad Barber]

Hi all,

Please update nixos package for qhull.  There was a slip-stream release that fixed some important problems after you picked up the distribution.

                                        --Brad
http://www.qhull.org/download/
http://www.qhull.org/src/Changes.txt


>Hi Karn,
>
>Thanks for reporting the problem.  Since I come from the Windows world, I wasn't aware how Linux distributions track their changes.  Qhull 2012.1 had a couple of slip stream releases to fix build problems discovered through integration with Octave.
>
>See the download page for the correct distribution.  
>
>The current md5sum's are
>
>fa66393b932b6c1d7038e5147a41b805 *qhull-2012.1/qhull-2012.1-zip.md5sum
>21947800dfe39e7850c83609fe8bcf4c *qhull-2012.1/qhull-2012.1-src-tgz.md5sum
>32c1d151744fe17c64f28b99ccc2ee50 *qhull-2012.1.zip
>d0f978c0d8dfb2e919caefa56ea2953c *qhull-2012.1-src.tgz
>
>For the next release, I'll probably change the numbering scheme for the src distribution.
>
>                                        --Brad
>
>   
>
>At 12:29 AM 4/21/2012, Karn Kallio wrote:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>In the Linux distribution NixOS (http://nixos.org) there is a package for 
>>qhull 2012.1 which records a hash for the qhull-2012.1-src.tgz release file.
>>
>>Just today I noticed that the hash which was recorded on 2012-02-05 no longer
>>matches the hash derived from the downloaded file.  Has this file been 
>>deliberately changed recently or is it possible that something is going wrong?
>>
>>Saludos,
>>Karn