Re: Are Guix-generated Docker images reproducible?

[Suhail Singh]

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> writes:

> 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?

Based on what I have observed, I know that you can get the same docker
image (as identified by the image ID hash) in some instances.  A
necessary condition, I imagine, would have to be for the build results
to be deterministic (i.e., the derivations to be "reproducible").

-- 
Suhail