Arch Linux minimal container userland 100% reproducible - now what?

[David A. Wheeler]

> On Mar 20, 2024, at 8:42 AM, kpcyrd <kpcyrd at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> in last week's email to the reproducible-builds email list[1] about reproducible Arch Linux I mentioned there's only one unreproducible package left in docker.io/library/archlinux.
> 
> [1]: https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2024-March/003291.html
> 
> Due to amazing work by dvzrv and Foxboron this package is now also reproducible!

That is fantastic, congratulations!!

But you know what I'm going to ask :-). What steps are left, if any, before the "normal" Arch Linux packages that people install are reproducible (at least in core Arch Linux)? Has that milestone been achieved? Will it be achieved once some package updates are released? Or is there something more, and if so, what is it?

Sorry, it wasn't clear to me if this was some sort of special set of "test packages" or if they were the normal Arch Linux packages.

--- David A. Wheeler