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by feldrim 395 days ago
An SBOM-like approach to EOL/EOS issues is on the way.
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I think the only large projects that presently take SBOMs seriously are Nix, Guix, and Go (non-cgo). Bootstrapping is non-trivial, but at least builds are reproducible and can be compared against existing binaries.

"Oh, just write plain C". Which compiler do you mean? GCC? LLVM/clang? On top of what OS/kernel? What firmware? Etc.

Some distros packaging Rust software (OpenSUSE at least) also transparently set up CARGO=cargo-audit to get embedded SBOMs.