Hi Konrad, On lun., 16 sept. 2024 at 13:27, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> wrote:
> Suppose you do > > guix time-machine --channels=channels.scm -- \ > pack --format=docker --manifest=manifest.scm > > You keep a copy of channels.scm and manifest.scm, and run the same > command a few months (and "guix pull"s) later, can you expect to get the > exact same Docker image file, bit for bit? If not, why not? That’s the idea but as noticed in the thread, there is still some roadblocks to have a bullet-proof machinery. FWIW, we can go a bit further and ask: if the binary Docker image had been produced by Guix, and that’s all we have, are we still able to know exactly how it had been produced? And thus rebuild it bit-to-bit? One step in this direction is explained in this post: https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/10/when-docker-images-become-fixed-point/ And the other steps are the ones noticed. ;-) Cheers, simon
