From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The tine Build System
Summary
The tine Build System is presented as a Buck2-based tool to build RPMs, Rust crates, Go modules, UKIs, and bootable images with hermetic, reproducible builds and minimal host requirements. It compares tine to mkosi, OBS, BuildStream, and Antlir, and provides a walkthrough of creating a demo image, defining build boxes, and generating SBOMs. The article emphasizes open-source tooling, security-conscious workflows (SBOMs and signing), and practical workflows for building and deploying OS images.