[tor-bugs] #34122 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: Create two Tor Browser build machines

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#34122: Create two Tor Browser build machines
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 Reporter:  sysrqb                               |          Owner:  tpa
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Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
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Comment (by anarcat):

 >  Currently, the default Tor Browser build system (tor-browser-build)
 requires the user have (essentially) full sudo permissions (#23631) due to
 its underlying use of runc for creating deterministic build environments.

 How open are we to changing how that works? How hard is changing that
 component, in other words?

 I ask because `runc` and friends have moved quite a bit in recent years,
 and there is now the possibility of building and running containers (the
 latter is what `runc` does, essentially) as regular users (AKA "rootless
 containers"). In particular, buildah and podman are drop-in Docker
 replacements that can do that.

 Therefore, if "creating deterministic build environments" is the goal,
 maybe we can look at podman and friends first?

 I see some of those ideas were mentioned in #23631 but i figured i would
 bring them back in scope here first...

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