Without repro builds, in practice even when vendors release source there are often no scripts to rebuild it. This isn't malice just a matter of it being hard to do right. Repro builds is a discipline to get it right. (GPL anticipated this problem back in the 80s, BTW.)
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Which Linux kernel? I have the source to the one I built. I'm not sure if I have it for the one my Alpine laptop is running (don't know what exact compiler they used). Pretty sure I would have it if running Debian.
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You said "you *don't* have source code without repro builds", then you said "I have the source to the one I built". Which one of those is true?
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