Strictly speaking, this is nothing new. Debian has been doing it for 5 years. https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/ https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/

Strictly speaking, this is nothing new. Debian has been doing it for 5 years. https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/ https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/ All distros there are essentially reproducible fuzzing CI systems that introduces determinism through disorderfs, lang changes and so on. These changes are fine to fix but nothing you'd normally get when reproducing packages for a distribution. Personally the important part is if the patches are upstreamed or not. This isn't something that is a priority among distribution. Results from a fuzzing in Arch: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.html https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.ht... Results from just chroot recreation: https://reproducible.archlinux.org https://reproducible.archlinux.org