Bug 13876

Created attachment 9021 [details]
busyboxconfig

Hello!

I'm working on reproducible alpine images and after a bit of debugging I noticed the alpine image contains the inode numbers of files in my build folder.

https://twitter.com/sn0int/status/1408961464401121281

This is a problem because, naturally, those are going to be basically random and there's no way for me to normalize them. gnu cpio has a `--reproducible` flag that acts as an alias for `--ignore-devno --renumber-inodes`, I'm not sure yet if I need `--ignore-devno` as well, but I definitely need `--renumber-inodes` to build deterministic images. :)

Besides the inode numbers the alpine initramfs is already fully reproducible with the patches I've submitted to alpine.

Thanks!