Checksum changed about rules_android HOT 5 CLOSED

Wait my computer is showing the old one... Huh

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Github made a change that caused the zips to change, they've since rolled it back:
https://twitter.com/tgummerer/status/1488493440103030787

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I am seeing this exact same issue and I'm able to reproduce locally

[~/Downloads]
bhorsley$ export URL="https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_android/archive/v0.1.1.zip"
[~/Downloads]
bhorsley$ curl -sL $URL | sha256sum
cd06d15dd8bb59926e4d65f9003bfc20f9da4b2519985c27e190cddc8b7a7806  -
[~/Downloads]
bhorsley@beehorse$ wget -O- $URL 2> /dev/null | sha256sum
7cb2b2e11aafe08b2ccb6eeb11f21f52c45e1ad1cdd0132ddf7bde8462bd9e20  -

both files are valid zip files and diffing the output with xxd I can see that the files are extremely similar but not identical.

I do not see the same issue when using an alternative URL: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_android/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.1.zip

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Github made a change that caused the zips to change, they've since rolled it back:

Good find, thank you @ahumesky

Per that thread:

In general we don't guarantee that the checksums of zip downloads will stay the same, they do for downloads of releases though.

Given this should the README for this repo update the URL in its example to the release url rather than the download URL ?

Download URL: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_android/archive/v0.1.1.zip
⬇️
Release URL: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_android/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.1.zip

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Actually there is already an open issue around this: #43 I'll resurface this suggestion there

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