[Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] plenty of huawei in the news today

Valdis Kl=?utf-8?Q?=c4=93?=tnieks valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Thu Mar 28 16:12:56 EDT 2019


On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:44:28 -0400, Jim Gettys said:

> My solution is more radical: all the vendors should be held to much higher
> standards, including reproducible builds (something that the UK government
> has been trying to get them to do for years, and failed).

All too often, even getting the *claimed* configuration that was built is far
too difficult. For example, if I ssh to my Lede router, getting it to cough up the
contents of the .config used to build it is a challenge - /proc/config.gz doesn't
hold the userspace part of the config.


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