Verified vs. Verifiable Reproducible Builds

[Larry Doolittle]

Vagrant -

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 12:16:06PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> If it becomes impossible to recreate the build environment, I daresay it
> is no longer verifiably reproducible... although having a history of
> past verifications is still better than not... but not very practically
> useful anymore. Hrm.

Long-term availability of toolchains is the use case that
was the bread-and-butter cash-cow for VMware back in the day.

Virtualized, documented, isolated, archivable environments at various levels
like Docker, podman, and chroot are clearly essential now.
If you have trouble regenerating a chroot I used to make an artifact,
I can always tar it up and send it to you.

  - Larry