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Fedora 41 Aims For More Reproducible Package Builds Thanks To A Rust Program
Continuing a trend worked on in recent Fedora Linux releases and more broadly in the open-source ecosystem at large for securing the software supply chain and ensuring unaltered binaries, Fedora 41 is aiming to ensure more reproducible package builds.
It's worth noting that this Change does not intend to impose any specific reproducibility requirements on Fedora packages. add-determinism takes steps to ensure it does not interfere with other buildroot post processors like mangle-shebangs, python-hardlink, python-bytecompile. Currently there are processors for ar, jar, javadoc, and pyc files.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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