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  • Mostly it is dealing with the fact that these tools tend to be language/build tool specific and most of them implement the spec badly. Then there is the part where you actually need to have something like Dependency Track setup which compares the versions in the SBOMs with the versions in security reports (such as CVEs, GHSAs,…) but most of those don’t really take into account distro level patches. I suspect the latter will be the largest part of the work for something distro-like such as FreeBSD.





  • Restarting a system gets it into a known state making debugging easier.

    And what are you going to debug when the problem does not occur and you do not know how to reproduce it? There is a lot of information you can only gather while the problem occurs. And yes, this is from the software developer and sysadmin perspective, not from the layman perspective. I would rather spend a little bit more time on the problem now instead of having it occur again and again without getting any closer to an actual solution.