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Reproducible Arch images with mkosi

Posted on za 31 augustus 2024 in systemd • Tagged withArch Linux, mkosi, systemd, reproducible

In the previousarticleI investigated how to create a reproducible image but ended up with only managing to create two identical image directories. In this article we'll end up with a fully bit-by-bit reproducible filesystem image!

Some things have changed since the last post, mkosi now no longer creates …

Investigating creating reproducible images with mkosi

Posted on zo 18 augustus 2024 in systemd • Tagged withArch Linux, mkosi, systemd, reproducible

I've blogged before about creating vagrant images using mkosi as part of an investigation to move image creation to mkosi but also as I will be giving a talk at All Systems Go about Arch Linux images mkosi and reproducibility.

With reproducible images in this article I mean that anyone …

Reproducing Arch [core] repository packages

Posted on do 27 juni 2019 in Reproducible Builds, Arch Linux • Tagged withArch Linux, Reproducible

As Arch Linux we are working on reproducible builds for a while and have a continuous test framework rebuilding package updated in our repositories. This test does an asp checkout of a package and builds it twice in a schroot, we do not try to reproduce actual repository packages yet …

Reproducible Arch Linux?!

Posted on zo 26 november 2017 in Arch Linux • Tagged withArch Linux, Security, Reproducible

The reproducible build initiative has been started a long time ago by Debian and has been grown to include more projects. Arch is now also in the process of getting reproducible build support, thanks to the of hard work of Anthraxx, Sangy, and many more volunteers. In pacman git patches …