Debian Bug report logs - #893037
Add support for diffing docker-format containers

Package: src:diffoscope; Maintainer for src:diffoscope is Reproducible builds folks <[email protected]>;

Reported by: Jonathan Dowland <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:27:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Forwarded to https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/issues/39

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Subject: Re: Bug#893037: Add support for diffing docker-format containers
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tags 893037 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you very much for the idea and wishlist bug.

> It would be nice if diffoscope could diff against docker containers available
> on the local system.

Could you briefly elaborate on what you mean here? I have a bunch of
directories under /var/lib/docker/containers -- are you wanting to
diffoscope two of these, or...? diffoscope basically works on "paths",
you see.


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