Re: Rust build for Firefox

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 05:33:03PM +0100, Arthur Barlow wrote:
> I recently tried to upgrade firefox, I believe 56, and of course I now need
> Rust installed.  Rust errored out with the following messages:
>
> ~~~~ snip ~~~~
> 
> When I went to look in the work/.packages directory, I could see that the
> files were there, but with different hex number names in the file name.
> However, the prefix and suffix were the same.  Any idea why this might
> happen.

This is how Rust differentiates multiple versions of the same Crate.

Apparently the hashes aren't deterministic enough...

	Jonathan Kollasch