• Arch Linux now has a reproducible container image

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Monday, April 20, 2026 18:30:06
    Arch Linux now has a reproducible container image

    Date:
    Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:27:37 +0000

    Description:
    Robin Candau has announced the availability of a bit-for-bit reproducible container image for
    Arch Linux: The bit-for-bit reproducibility of the image is confirmed by digest
    equality across builds ( podman inspect --format '{{.Digest}}'
    <image> ) and by running diffoci to compare builds. We provide documentation on how to reproduce this
    Docker image (as we did for the WSL image as well ). Building the base rootFS for the Docker image in a deterministic way was
    the main challenge, but it reuses the same process as for our WSL image (as both share the same rootFS build system). [...] This represents another meaningful achievement in our
    "reproducible builds" efforts and we're already looking forward to the
    next step!

    ======================================================================
    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1068699/


    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: tqwNet UK HUB @ hub.uk.erb.pw (1337:1/100)