Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@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
