I hope this is the right place to ask. I am new to Nix and trying to use it for now as a universal package manager. I installled Stremio using Nix but the app doesn’t work properly. I see that it’s several versions out of date. The same app works fine using Flatpak. Is there a way to let the maintainer know? I’d also love some documentation that can help me update it myself. I can just use the Flatpak but I just want to have one less package manager to worry about.

  • MadMaurice
    1·
    1 year ago

    Actually now you can just leave it empty and it’ll use a hash of all zeroes.

    • ck_
      2·
      1 year ago

      That is how fakeHash is defined, its just a bit more clear whats intended.

      • MadMaurice
        1·
        1 year ago

        Right, but why would you need to show what’s intended for something that you would not commit anyway? My point is if I add or update a package and don’t know the hash for a particular derivation I need to put something temporarily to let nix fail and show me the hash it found out. And there I have the choice between typing something like lib.fakeHash or just "", of which imho the latter is way easier.