1   procenv

Contents

• 1   procenv
  • 1.1   Overview
  • 1.2   Results
    • 1.2.1   Semaphore-CI
    • 1.2.2   Travis-CI
    • 1.2.3   Open Build Service (OBS)
    • 1.2.4   Ubuntu
      • 1.2.4.1   build environment
      • 1.2.4.2   PPA environment
      • 1.2.4.3   Ubuntu Autopkgtest (DEP-8) environment
      • 1.2.4.4   The sbuild tool environment
      • 1.2.4.5   The pbuilder tool environment
    • 1.2.5   Debian
      • 1.2.5.1   buildd (and ports buildd) environment
      • 1.2.5.2   Debian autopkgtest (DEP-8) environment
    • 1.2.6   Fedora
    • 1.2.7   FreeBSD
  • 1.3   Porting
  • 1.4   References
  • 1.5   Author
  • 1.6   Home Page

1.1   Overview

procenv is a simple command-line utility, written in C and licensed under the GPL, that dumps all attributes of the environment [1] in which it runs, in well-structured plain ASCII, JSON (YAML), XML or CSV.

It is useful as a test tool, to understand what environment a process runs in and for system comparison.

procenv runs on the following operating systems:

• Android
• FreeBSD
• GNU Hurd
• GNU Linux
• Minix 3
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD
• OSX

It unashamedly emulates a number of existing system utilities as it is attempting to be all-encompassing: I wrote it with the aim of being able to dump "everything" that a process may care about by simply running a single program (by default). Also, the line of demarcation between "process", "program" and "system" is slightly blurry in some aspects. For example sysconf(3) variables could arguably be considered system attributes, but procenv shows these too since they are obviously meant to be queryable by applications.

[1]	If you find anything missing, please either raise a bug or send a patch :)

1.2   Results

procenv is extremely useful for learning about the environment software builds in. Often, such systems disallow login, but do allow access to log files. Handily, procenv runs a battery of tests on build including running itself so that the build environment gets captured in the builds logs themselves. Select a link below and drill down to the build log to see the procenv output:

1.2.1   Semaphore-CI

• https://semaphoreci.com/jamesodhunt/procenv (Click "Passed", "Job #", then "make check" to see output).

1.2.2   Travis-CI

• https://travis-ci.org/jamesodhunt/procenv

1.2.3   Open Build Service (OBS)

• https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:jamesodhunt:procenv/procenv

If you distro does not yet provide a procenv package, binary packages for RHEL, Fedora, Centos, SLES, and Arch Linux are available from here:

• https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajamesodhunt%3Aprocenv&package=procenv

Click on your icon for your distro and follow the instructions.

Note that these packages are "bleeding edge" (generated directly from the github repository).

1.2.4   Ubuntu

1.2.4.1   build environment

Click the "twisty" triangle to the left of the release number under a release name, then click one of the build links (like "amd64)":

• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procenv

1.2.4.2   PPA environment

https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/+recipe/procenv-daily

1.2.4.3   Ubuntu Autopkgtest (DEP-8) environment

• http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/p/procenv/
• Old Jenkins system
  • https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Wily/view/AutoPkgTest/job/wily-adt-procenv/
  • https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Vivid/view/AutoPkgTest/job/vivid-adt-procenv/
  • https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Utopic/view/AutoPkgTest/job/utopic-adt-procenv/
  • https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Trusty/view/AutoPkgTest/job/trusty-adt-procenv/

1.2.4.4   The sbuild tool environment

procenv gets run from within sbuild via a DEP-8 test:

• http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/s/sbuild/
• Old Jenkins system
  • https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Wily/view/AutoPkgTest/job/wily-adt-sbuild/

1.2.4.5   The pbuilder tool environment

procenv gets run from within pbuilder via a DEP-8 test:

• http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/p/pbuilder/
• Old Jenkins system
  • https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Wily/view/AutoPkgTest/job/wily-adt-pbuilder/

1.2.5   Debian

1.2.5.1   buildd (and ports buildd) environment

• https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=procenv&suite=sid

1.2.5.2   Debian autopkgtest (DEP-8) environment

• http://ci.debian.net/#package/procenv

1.2.6   Fedora

• https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/procenv/ (click "Builds status", click a build, then click one of the "build logs" links).

1.2.7   FreeBSD

Logs used to be available, but sadly it appears pointyhat.freebsd.com has been taken offline (any replacement?)

1.3   Porting

Can you help port procenv to other platforms (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, ...)? If so, please get in contact.

1.4   References

See http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.com/2012/10/procenv-and-process-environment.html

1.5   Author

procenv was written by James Hunt <[email protected]>.

1.6   Home Page

• https://github.com/jamesodhunt/procenv