Symlink to snapcraft apps no longer working

[Zygmunt Krynicki]

> Wiadomość napisana przez Martin Winter <mwinter at opensourcerouting.org> w dniu 11.11.2016, o godz. 10:54:
> 
> Not sure when this (recently) changed.
> 
> All apps as defined by a snap are prefixed with the snap name
> 
> Ie, I have under apps a “vtysh” defined, which then ends up as
> quagga.vtysh (for the quagga snap).
> 
> So far no issue.
> 
> Now, a few weeks/months back, I was able to create a symlink
> with “vtysh” pointing to “quagga.vtysh” and then could use the same
> simple “vtysh” command to call the app. (same as traditional package installs)


I think this is related to snap-run. You may have noticed that the quagga.vtysh itself is a symlink to /usr/bin/snap. The new „snap run” command understands symlinks and uses this as a hint on what to run.


> 
> Link had to be done outside snap, but it allowed to keep all scripts
> unchanged.
> 
> At the current snapd version (2.16ubuntu3), this does no longer work.
> 
> all apps ends up as a symlink to the same /usr/bin/snap binary and somehow the
> binary seems to fail to call the correct app if there is another symlink
> used.
> 
> Is there a way to get symlinks to still work as before?
> 
> - Martin
> 
> 
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