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February 14, 2025

Is NixOS truly reproducible?

The author studies the reproducibility of the ~100k packages on nixpkgs and found an impressive 91% bitwise reproducibility rate in in the most recent release of nixpkgs. The post discussed the main reasons for unreproducibilities: embedded dates, embedded uname outputs, embedded environment variables, embedded non-deterministic build ids.