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Subject: Re: Reproducible installation images
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ng0 <ng0@n0.is> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s transcribed 2.6K bytes:

[...]

>> However, disk images are likely not bit-reproducible currently,
>> primarily due to non-determinism in how file systems populate the disk.
>>=20
>> They might be reproducible if =E2=80=98guix system=E2=80=99 always creat=
es files in the
>> same order, which is something we could enforce (perhaps that=E2=80=99s =
already
>> the case).  If it=E2=80=99s not sufficient, then we should look at what =
others
>> in the reproducible-builds.org effort have been doing (Tails achieved
>> reproducible ISO images, for instance, and I think OpenWrt people were
>> looking at ext2 reproducibility.)
>>=20
>> There may also be lingering non-reproducibility issues in some of the
>> packages included that need to be addressed.
>>=20
>> It would be good to investigate!
>
> Definitely, I agree. Should we open a new bug ticket to track this effort?

Sure, two even: one for the binary tarball, one for the GuixSD ISO
image.

Ludo=E2=80=99.