Bug#779349: ITP: care -- make linux programs reproducible on all linux systems
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Remi Duraffort <ivoire@videolan.org>
* Package name : care
Version : 2.2.0
Upstream Author : Cédric Vincent <cedric.vincent@st.com>
* URL : http://reproducible.io
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : make linux programs reproducible on all linux systems
CARE monitors the execution of the specified command to create an archive that
contains all the material required to re-execute it in the same context.
That way, the command will be reproducible everywhere, even on Linux systems
that are supposed to be not compatible with the original Linux system. CARE is
typically useful to get reliable bug reports, demonstrations, artifact
evaluation, tutorials, portable applications, minimal rootfs, file-system
coverage, ...
By design, CARE does not record events at all. Instead, it archives
environment variables and accessed file-system components -- before
modification -- during the so-called initial execution. Then, to reproduce
this execution, the re-execute.sh script embedded into the archive restores
the environment variables and relaunches the command confined into the saved
file-system.
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