Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image

Posted by speckx 5 hours ago

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Comment by juliusceasar 1 hour ago

So why is this important?

Comment by redrix 15 minutes ago

I use Arch btw.

Comment by panny 3 hours ago

>This is due to one important caveat: to ensure reproducibility, the pacman keys have to be stripped from the image, meaning that pacman is not usable out of the box in this image.

>Users will need to (re)generate the pacman keyring (by running `pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate archlinux`) before being able to update the system and install packages via pacman.

Interestingly, this approach is how archlinuxarm has been distributed all along. https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/generic