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Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility


The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been gathering steam over the years, and gaining traction with major Linux distributions. Debian, for example, has been working toward reproducible builds for more than a decade; it can now produce official live CDs of the current stable release that are reproducible.

The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been gathering steam over the years, and gaining traction with major Linux distributions. It will also require standing up a public instance of rebuilderd, which is a system for providing independent verification that binary packages can be reproduced from source code. Cavalca said that the reproducibility work was currently using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account sponsored by Meta, but " we can look at moving into Fedora infra if there's a preference for that".

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