[Nix-dev] fetchgit - why sha256 protection?

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Mon Nov 19 14:25:39 CET 2012


Excerpts from Shea Levy's message of Mon Nov 19 13:38:37 +0100 2012:
> Is it terribly difficult to run nix-prefetch-git?
YES: I'm talking about such configurations:
http://gembundler.com/

And here you have git repo and hash. Trying to semi automatically
package such things requires much overhead if you have to prefetch
everything to get a sha256 hash.

I'm not talking about the one project you do package once in a year.
I'm talking about 20 small ruby gem packages you need to get some
bleeding edge code working.

Marc Weber


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