Bug#893037: Add support for diffing docker-format containers

Juliana Oliveira juliana.orod at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 17:19:31 UTC 2018


Hi Jonathan and Lamby,

AFAIK, docker /images/ can be exported to tarballs. Not sure how human
readable they are, but diffoscope can definitely work. (:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:52:40 +0000 Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> --
> ,''`.
> : :' : Chris Lamb
> `. `'` lamby at debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
> `-
>
>

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Juliana



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