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<p><span class="autocomment">Oudated hashing practice: </span> new section</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Oudated hashing practice ==<br /> <br /> I think the page is currently outdated with regards to hashing best practices. I tried following the page to update the zettlr package but it uses an SRI hash instead of directly sha256, and so does the current i3 package definition.<br /> <br /> The page recommends to use &lt;code&gt;nix-prefetch-url&lt;/code&gt; but that outputs a raw sha256 hash, while it is possible to convert the output to a proper SRI hash using<br /> $ nix-prefetch-url &#039;&lt;nowiki&gt;http://i3wm.org/downloads/i3-4.5.1.tar.bz2&#039;&lt;/nowiki&gt; | xargs nix hash to-sri --type sha256<br /> I feel the page would benefit from being updated to use &lt;code&gt;nix store prefetch-file&lt;/code&gt; instead. Both are discussed in https://discourse.nixos.org/t/why-does-nix-prefetch-url-not-return-hashes-in-sri-format/18271 [[User:Jeantil|Jeantil]] ([[User talk:Jeantil|talk]]) 08:27, 13 March 2025 (UTC)</div>

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