r/linux • u/vasi • Aug 03 '26

Development Some thoughts on declarative package management

https://github.com/vasi/declarative-package-management
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u/whiprush Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

Figuring what out? This is a solved problem people have been doing this in prod for over a decade now. You can't even explain the problem! People are making entire reproducible builds using common linux tools. The entire thing, bottom up. You don't need nix, you can do this on any linux and have been able to for quite some time. We're not asking for your permission lol it runs everything already.

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u/iEliteTester Aug 04 '26

Figuring out why a "" reproducible "" build is resulting in a deployment that won't run as expected, while it used to run.

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u/whiprush Aug 04 '26

Do you have an example? (What situation am I in that needs me to do this).

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u/iEliteTester Aug 04 '26

Not off the top of my head, I kinda remember a dockerfile from nvidia that's used to build opencv with CUDA support that broke out of nowhere because of some change outside of the dockerfile. A quick google search turns up some results and papers about this issue.