Use of the dump plugin in snapcraft 2.22.1

[Jenny Murphy]

Hi James,
 Thanks, yes now I can manage with the dump plugin.
Jenny

On 8 December 2016 at 10:50, James Tait <james.tait at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi Jenny,
>
> On 8 December 2016 at 10:14, Jenny Murphy <jenny.murphy at episensor.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>> I have been trying to upgrade a snapcraft file I had which used the copy
>> plugin with snapcraft 1.1.0. My newer version of snapcraft 2.22.1.
>> I am aware that the copy plugin is now deprecated and I should use the
>> dump plugin.
>> I could actually like to copy the contents of a directory :
>> So previously I had :
>>  move-webapp:
>>         plugin: copy
>>         files:
>>             webapp: webapp  # Moved everything in ./webapp to stage/webapp
>>
>>
>> I haven't found too many examples of using the dump plugin to do the same
>> job.
>> The Examples link is broken here. http://snapcraft.io/docs
>> /reference/plugins/dump
>>
>>
>> ​I also found it difficult to locate any documentation on the plugin, but
> with some reading of the code and some experimentation I got something that
> seems to work. This
> <https://github.com/jamestait/snappy-playpen/blob/cuberite/cuberite/snapcraft.yaml>
> is my snapcraft.yaml using the copy plugin, and I updated to to this
> <https://github.com/jamestait/cuberite/blob/master/snapcraft.yaml> using
> the dump plugin. In one instance I simply replaced files with filesets;
> in the other I replaced it with organize and added a clause to only
> include the bin directory in the snap. I don’t recall why the two
> approaches were required.
>
> Hope that helps!
> ​
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