Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> writes:

> As you may have guessed, the reason for my question was that I
> encountered a non-reproducible Docker image build. And as both of you
> point out, the packages entering into the images must be
> reproducible.

Right, that's necessary, but as you observed, not sufficient.

> In the meantime, I found the explanation for my case: the packages in my
> image are reproducible, but the profile composed from them is not, due
> to a non-deterministic step in profile generation.

Good catch!  It would be nice if profile generation preserved
reproducibility.

> For the details: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=73295

Thanks for the reference.

-- 
Suhail

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