Since OCI determinism was mentioned, I feel it may be of interest that some friends and I bootstrapped a linux distro from 0 to solve exactly this problem.<p>[Stageˣ]: The container native, full source bootstrapped, musl based, and reproducible toolchain to build all of the things.<p><a href="https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex" rel="nofollow">https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex</a><p>A lot more to come on this soon.<p>This was only possible by carefully incorporating and cribbing a huge amount of bootstrapping and reproducibility work from the Stage0, live-bootstrap, Docker, Guix, Nix, mrustc, Debian, Alpine, and Arch teams, many of whose members have generously helped unblock us several times.