Re: Reproducible installation images

[Ludovic Courtès]

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>> However, disk images are likely not bit-reproducible currently,
>> primarily due to non-determinism in how file systems populate the disk.
>> 
>> They might be reproducible if ‘guix system’ always creates files in the
>> same order, which is something we could enforce (perhaps that’s already
>> the case).  If it’s 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.)
>> 
>> There may also be lingering non-reproducibility issues in some of the
>> packages included that need to be addressed.
>> 
>> It would be good to investigate!
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> 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’.