[rb-general] Reproducible system images

[Holger Levsen]

hi & happy new year!

just commenting on three aspects here...

On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 11:57:05PM -0000, Chris Lamb wrote:
> [...] Whilst this was based on some work I did on debootstrap in 2015
> [1] speaking in early 2020 (happy New Year all, by the way) I wonder
> how much of this can or should be moved into upstream debootstrap
> itself.

as much as possible?

(and then I've started to wonder whether Debian can completly abandon
debootstrap and switch to mmdebstrap, which already produces bit by bit
identical results if SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.)

> I mention this because in the time since I wrote the above, with the
> rest of the Tails team I spent quite a bit of effort ensuring their
> ISO images are reproducible and there are quite a few hacks that we do
> there that should be abstracted or otherwise upstreamed/centralised
> *somewhere*, although in many cases I'm not sure quite where they
> would fit.

d-i, *strap and debian-cd mostly?


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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