diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-os-image.yml b/.github/workflows/build-os-image.yml
index 8bbdeafe63..38b0105c68 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-os-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-os-image.yml
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ jobs:
           bazel build "${TARGET}"
           {
             echo "image-dir=$(bazel cquery --output=files "$TARGET")"
+            echo "rpmdb=$(bazel cquery --output=files //image/base:rpmdb)"
           } | tee -a "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
@@ -190,6 +191,12 @@ jobs:
             ${{ steps.build.outputs.image-dir }}/constellation.initrd
             ${{ steps.build.outputs.image-dir }}/constellation.vmlinuz
 
+      - name: Upload sbom info as artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@0b7f8abb1508181956e8e162db84b466c27e18ce # v3.1.2
+        with:
+          name: sbom-${{ matrix.csp }}-${{ matrix.attestation_variant }}
+          path: ${{ steps.build.outputs.rpmdb }}
+
   upload-os-image:
     name: "Upload OS image to CSP"
     needs: [build-settings, make-os-image]
@@ -616,6 +623,35 @@ jobs:
             --signature measurements.json.sig
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
+  upload-sbom:
+    name: "Upload SBOM"
+    needs: [build-settings, make-os-image]
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: read
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    steps:
+      - name: Login to AWS
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@5fd3084fc36e372ff1fff382a39b10d03659f355 # v2.2.0
+        with:
+          role-to-assume: arn:aws:iam::795746500882:role/GitHubConstellationImagePipeline
+          aws-region: eu-central-1
+
+      - name: Download sbom
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@9bc31d5ccc31df68ecc42ccf4149144866c47d8a # v3.0.2
+        with:
+          # downloading / using only the QEMU manifest is fine
+          # since the images only differ in the ESP partition
+          name: sbom-qemu-qemu-vtpm
+
+      - name: Upload SBOMs to S3
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          aws s3 cp \
+          rpmdb.tar \
+            "s3://cdn-constellation-backend/${{needs.build-settings.outputs.imageApiBasePath}}/${file}" \
+            --no-progress
+
   upload-artifacts:
     name: "Upload image lookup table and CLI compatibility info"
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
diff --git a/image/base/BUILD.bazel b/image/base/BUILD.bazel
index 20155ca04e..b226f472df 100644
--- a/image/base/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/image/base/BUILD.bazel
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 load("@aspect_bazel_lib//lib:copy_file.bzl", "copy_file")
 load("@aspect_bazel_lib//lib:copy_to_directory.bzl", "copy_to_directory")
+load("@rules_pkg//:pkg.bzl", "pkg_tar")
 load("//bazel/mkosi:mkosi_image.bzl", "mkosi_image")
 
 copy_to_directory(
@@ -40,6 +41,11 @@ mkosi_image(
     outs = [
         "image",
         "image.tar",
+        "image-.rpm.lock",
+        "image-packagemanifest",
+        "image-rpmdb.sqlite",
+        "image-rpmdb.sqlite-shm",
+        "image-rpmdb.sqlite-wal",
     ],
     extra_trees = [
         "//image:sysroot_tar",
@@ -58,3 +64,23 @@ mkosi_image(
     ],
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
 )
+
+pkg_tar(
+    name = "rpmdb",
+    srcs = [
+        "image-.rpm.lock",
+        "image-packagemanifest",
+        "image-rpmdb.sqlite",
+        "image-rpmdb.sqlite-shm",
+        "image-rpmdb.sqlite-wal",
+    ],
+    remap_paths = {
+        "/image-.rpm.lock": "/var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock",
+        "/image-packagemanifest": "/usr/share/constellation/packagemanifest",
+        "/image-rpmdb.sqlite": "/var/lib/rpm/rpmdb.sqlite",
+        "/image-rpmdb.sqlite-shm": "/var/lib/rpm/rpmdb.sqlite-shm",
+        "/image-rpmdb.sqlite-wal": "/var/lib/rpm/image-rpmdb.sqlite-wal",
+    },
+    tags = ["manual"],
+    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+)
diff --git a/image/base/mkosi.conf b/image/base/mkosi.conf
index 3f041eac2b..8d00493269 100644
--- a/image/base/mkosi.conf
+++ b/image/base/mkosi.conf
@@ -61,10 +61,6 @@ Packages=passwd
 RemoveFiles=/var/log
 RemoveFiles=/var/cache
 RemoveFiles=/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java/cacerts
-            /usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/transaction_history.sqlite*
             /var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache
-# https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/348
-# RemoveFiles=/etc/authselect/*
 RemoveFiles=/etc/issue
 RemoveFiles=/etc/issue.net
-CleanPackageMetadata=true
diff --git a/image/base/mkosi.postinst b/image/base/mkosi.postinst
index 99a2ec0bcb..9e02d6c321 100755
--- a/image/base/mkosi.postinst
+++ b/image/base/mkosi.postinst
@@ -7,3 +7,11 @@ mkdir -p "${BUILDROOT}"/etc/{cni,kubernetes}
 # move issue files away from /etc
 # to allow /run/issue and /run/issue.d to take precedence
 mv "${BUILDROOT}/etc/issue.d" "${BUILDROOT}/usr/lib/issue.d" || true
+
+# generate reproducible package manifest
+mkdir -p "${BUILDROOT}/usr/share/constellation"
+rpm -qa --qf '%{name};%{version};%{license}\n' --dbpath "${BUILDROOT}/var/lib/rpm/" | LC_ALL=C sort | tee "${BUILDROOT}/usr/share/constellation/packagemanifest"
+cp "${BUILDROOT}/usr/share/constellation/packagemanifest" "${OUTPUTDIR}/"
+
+# copy rpmdb to outputs
+cp "${BUILDROOT}"/var/lib/rpm/{rpmdb.sqlite-wal,rpmdb.sqlite-shm,rpmdb.sqlite,.rpm.lock} "${OUTPUTDIR}/"
diff --git a/image/initrd/mkosi.conf b/image/initrd/mkosi.conf
index 173691555a..9c32e11ad6 100644
--- a/image/initrd/mkosi.conf
+++ b/image/initrd/mkosi.conf
@@ -36,6 +36,4 @@ RemoveFiles=/var/cache
 RemoveFiles=/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java/cacerts
             /usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/transaction_history.sqlite*
             /var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache
-# https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/348
-# RemoveFiles=/etc/authselect/*
 CleanPackageMetadata=true
diff --git a/image/system/BUILD.bazel b/image/system/BUILD.bazel
index a1be956980..ddc7ae621b 100644
--- a/image/system/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/image/system/BUILD.bazel
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ load(":variants.bzl", "CSPS", "STREAMS", "VARIANTS", "autologin", "constellation
             stream,
         ),
         base_trees = [
-            "//image/base",
+            "//image/base:image.tar",
         ],
         extra_trees = constellation_packages(stream),
         initrds = [
diff --git a/image/system/mkosi.conf b/image/system/mkosi.conf
index c45f0cc233..f49c9ebd8c 100644
--- a/image/system/mkosi.conf
+++ b/image/system/mkosi.conf
@@ -19,6 +19,4 @@ RemoveFiles=/var/cache
 RemoveFiles=/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java/cacerts
             /usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/transaction_history.sqlite*
             /var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache
-# https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/348
-# RemoveFiles=/etc/authselect/*
 CleanPackageMetadata=true