documentation: better explain the reproducibility offered by a Nix Flake build
Hello!
I have posted my thoughts about the topic of distroless containers:
https://blog.riemann.cc/digitalisation/2025/10/26/distroless-containers-nix-flakes-vs-fedora/
I have mentioned in on Mastodon and received in reply the following comment:
« Reproducible builds are implemented - Nix is being used to ensure that builds are reproducible, meaning the same source code and build instructions always produce identical container images. »
That's not exactly how nix works : it's more about "we ensure any change in the source code or build instructions will be detected": the resulting image is not necessarily reproducible (bit-by-bit), If it is, it's more thanks to the debian side
I am no expert. I just say you may want to look into this topic.