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As a follow-up to the similar milestone reached for our WSL image a few months ago , I’m happy to share that Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image! This bit-for-bit reproducible image is distributed under a new “repro” tag . The reason for this is due to one noticeable caveat: to ensure reproducibility, the pacman keys have to be stripped from the image,…
Hey everyone! 👋 As done last year , here is a recap of all the noticeable FOSS related stuff I had the chance to work on and achieve in 2025. 😄 See also the awesome recap of my FOSS mates and good friends: kpcyrd , orhun . Arch Linux Packaging I pushed a total of 2277 packages to Arch Linux repositories, most of them being packages updates with the top five packages being:
I’m happy to share a great milestone I worked on and that we’ve been able to recently reach: The Arch Linux WSL image is now bit-for-bit reproducible ! I attended this year’s Reproducible Builds Summit in Vienna during which I had the occasion to discuss with Holger Levsen (a.k.a. h01ger - Debian member / contributor and part of the Reproducible Build Core team) about…
…and it is officially (re)distributed by Microsoft! A few months ago, the eventuality of building and providing an official Arch Linux WSL image (Windows Subsystem for Linux - a Microsoft solution allowing to run Linux environments within Windows) was brought to the table within the Arch Linux staff. This subject was actually explored a few years back but got turned down due to multiple…
Fellow Arch Linux mate kpcyrd recently published a “2024 recap” blog post which (in addition of being a really cool, interesting and impressive read) inspired me to write my own. So here is a recap of all the noticeable FOSS related stuff I had the chance to work on & achieve in 2024. 😄
Alpine packaging tooling are now available in the Arch Linux [extra] repository! I recently added the abuild and atools Alpine packaging tooling to the Arch Linux [extra] repository. Thanks to that, these tools can now be used to maintain and build Alpine packages (in a clean chroot) from an Arch Linux system, without requiring to rely on a separate Alpine installation, such as a container or a…
Context As you probably already know by now, a backdoor / security vulnerability has been recently discovered in xz . In this article, I won’t cover the technical aspect or the potential consequences of it (it has already been done by people way more knowledgeable than am I on that matter) but I will expose what I think we should learn from it, from a packaging stand point.
Context I recently woke up with a non-working network connection in my house, both internet and LAN accesses were down. I immediately checked on my internet provider, but my router seemed running just fine and no breakages were reported on their side in my region. I then decided to check on my own infrastructure and realised that both of my physical servers were down. Those servers host my DNS and…
The website This website is built with the HUGO static website generator using the anatole theme. The website’s source code is hosted in this GitHub repository . Automated CI / CD workflow Every changes I make (e.g. creating a new article, update the theme, add new parameters to the website, …) are done in my local git repository on the dev branch . Once the changes are pushed to…
As stated in the home page , this website serves as a central place to get general & contact info about me. If you want to contact me, you can reach me at robincandau@protonmail.com , @Antiz on Mastodon or Antiz on Libera Chat. I’ll use this blog section to publish some posts when I feel like it.