"path must be relative" in filesets is holdover convention from debian packaging, causes grief

[Didier Roche]

Le 25/10/2016 à 08:46, Dan Kegel a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:21 PM, Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> You have the parts/<partname>/install directory, which is your target
>> for your parts installation. All files are there (and DESTDIR is set to
>> there). It sounds then normal to not rely on absolute path, but only
>> relative one to reference those, and not $ANYFILE_FROM_YOUR_HOST_SYSTEM,
>> doesn't it?
> 
> Yes.  I'm asking for syntactic sugar.  Please ignore the leading slash
> rather than throwing an error.  This will make life easier for users
> generating snapcraft.yaml, who otherwise have to script removing that slash.
> 
>> Maybe that's my twisted debian packager mindset, but do you mind
>> providing a real example? If an upstream project ignores DESTDIR and
>> install directly on system path, this is quite ackward and should be
>> fixed in other way.
> 
> I'm not talking about supporting that.  I'm talking about doing
> everything right *except* for not having to strip the leading
> slash off those paths.
> 
> Another way of looking at is is, the path should be evaluated
> in the confined context rather than the outer context.
> Does that make more sense?
> 
> Grouchily yours,
> random user tired of doing sed -e 's,^/,,' all over the place.
> 


Ah ok, that makes sense. I think that would be possible, ignoring
leading "/". Not sure it's a feature we should advertize, but I don't
see any kind of side-effect to it, as long as we requires all files to
be in known snapcraft dirs.

Sergio, Kyle, wdyt?