> What is the proper way to verify the kernel source before compiling?
> There have been too many trojans of late in open source and free
> software and I, for one, am getting paranoid.
If it's in BK you can be pretty sure that it is what was checked in,
BK checksums every diff in every file. It's not at all impossible
to fool the checksum but it is very unlikely that you can cause
semantic differences in the form of a trojan horse and still fool
the checksums.
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