branch libreelec-10.0 download failures

  • Hello,

    When trying to download packages for libreelec-10.0, I get following errors:

    Are those files corrupt?

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  • Thanks heitbaum!

    I have an additional question, just to get a better understanding:

    In the case of libretro-mame2016, isn't ${PKG_VERSION} the git sha of a specific commit in the upstream repository? How comes that the contents of this commit have changed over time? I always assumed git commits are unmodifiable?

  • As a developer I don't push zipped/rar'd/gunziped/xz'd archive files to the repo for people to download, I push source code and GitHub does magic in the background that allows people to download "packaged" sources. As long as nothing changes in the way that GitHub compresses things, we download the same file with the same SHA256 every time. However if GitHub updates the underlying infrastructure to get better compression etc. the file served for any githash can change and the SHA256 will need updating. It doesn't happen often, but it can and does happen occasionally.