Comment by Foxboron

2 years ago

I'm very sure you are actually just rebuilding the container images themselves, not the package tree you are depending on. Building reproducible ISOs, or container images, with a package repository as a base isn't particularly hard these days.

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prateem_  2 years ago

I see what you mean. Thanks for clarifying. Even so, Nix is no worse placed than those other distributions for bit reproducibility. Correct?

  • Foxboron  2 years ago

    It's unclear at the moment because of the limited testing (minimal ISO and a Gnome ISO) vs Arch/Debian/Guix rebuilding entire package repositories.