Merge pull request #8777 from haskell/mergify/bp/3.10/pr-8769

don't auto-download in hash validation phase (backport #8769)

Author: mergify[bot]

cabal-install/src/Distribution/Client/FetchUtils.hs

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ verifyFetchedTarball verbosity repoCtxt repo pkgid =
    in handleError $ do
         exists <- doesFileExist file
         if not exists
-          then return False
+          then return True -- if the file does not exist, it vacuously passes validation, since it will be downloaded as necessary with what we will then check is a valid hash.
           else case repo of
             -- a secure repo has hashes we can compare against to confirm this is the correct file.
                 RepoSecure{} ->