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From: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: dracut --reproducible by default
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:51:18 +0200
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Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> We are currently considering to feed Dracut with --reproducible in the
> rpm-ostree[1] project when creating a new OStree[2] tree image.  In this
> way there won't be need to store an additional file when the new initrd
> file matches an older one.  Everything works very well (except the
> additional step of providing a patched GNU cpio for now).
>
> Reproducible images seem to make a lot of sense, also for users that
> don't know about the --reproducible option.  Is there any reason why
> this is not done by default?
>
> Thanks,
> Giuseppe
>
> 1) https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree
> 2) https://github.com/GNOME/ostree/