Snapcraft 2.23 restricts dump plugin capability

[Matthew Aguirre]

Can you do the organize in the build instead of post organizing with the
dump?  I used to do something similar with copy, but then dump didn't do
what I needed, so switched it up.

On Dec 13, 2016 5:21 PM, "Joe Coates" <jcoates at extremenetworks.com> wrote:

> My snap includes a part which has an unconventional build process (which I
> don’t control).  It builds and arranges a lot of stuff that I don’t need.
> For a while now I have been using a second part with the dump plugin to
> pick the files I need out of the build tree of the first part, and create
> directories and files in the snap exactly as I need them.  The yaml goes
> like below.   Unfortunately this breaks as of snapcraft 2.23, which seems
> to check the dump source path before the first part is built, and fails.
> Any suggestions as to how I can achieve the previous function with the
> current dump plugin ?  (Using the organize keyword in the first part does
> not seem to be able to create directories in the install tree).
>
>
>
>
>
>    part-aa:
>
>     source: git at giteng1:part-aa
>
>     source-type: git
>
>     plugin: autotools
>
> # Don't include anything from here in the snap (done in next part)
>
>     stage: [ "-*" ]
>
>     snap: [ "-*" ]
>
>
>
> # This part just installs from the build tree of part-aa to the snap
>
>   aa-snap:
>
>     source: ./parts/part-aa/build
>
>     after: [part-aa]
>
>     plugin: dump
>
>     organize:
>
>       client/client: usr/bin/myclient
>
>       other/observer: usr/bin/myobserver
>
>       datafiles/client-1: etc/myclient/
>
>       datafiles/client-2: etc/myclient/
>
>       datafiles/observer-id: etc/myobserver/
>
>     snap:
>
>       - usr/bin
>
>       - etc
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Coates
>
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