Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image
speckx
40 points
3 comments
April 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
panny
>This is due to one important caveat: to ensure reproducibility, the pacman keys have to be stripped from the image, meaning that pacman is not usable out of the box in this image. >Users will need to (re)generate the pacman keyring (by running `pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate archlinux`) before being able to update the system and install packages via pacman. Interestingly, this approach is how archlinuxarm has been distributed all along. https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/generic
juliusceasar
So why is this important?