diff --git a/package/ipkg/ipkg.hash b/package/ipkg/ipkg.hash
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+# locally computed
+sha256  405743e1ba320ed6095d42a898f1486e3af1d745cae2bd45dfe1d8403a4d8995  ipkg-0.99.163.tar.gz