First time snapcraft user having issues

[Kyle Fazzari]

On 09/14/2016 10:18 AM, Kyle Fazzari wrote:
>
> On 09/14/2016 10:11 AM, Robert Park wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Kyle Fazzari
>> <kyle.fazzari at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> On 09/13/2016 08:08 PM, Robert Park wrote:
>>>> So I want to snap up a script that needs root and does administrative
>>>> stuff on the host system. I realize this goes against snaps' goals of
>>>> being all secure and confined, is there any way I can list a plug in
>>>> my 'plugs:' that would give me root on the users computer, perhaps
>>>> giving the user a giant warning that they're installing something that
>>>> can break their system? Basically I don't want any confinement in my
>>>> snap at all.
>>> Yeah, installing with --devmode disables confinement (but enables
>>> warnings). Make sure the "confinement" property in the snapcraft.yaml is
>>> set to devmode as well, which will make it impossible to install without
>>> --devmode.
>> Even with "confinement: devmode" and "sudo snap install
>> --force-dangerous --devmode *.snap" I still can't run commands from
>> the host system:
>>
>> /snap/bileto/x1/bin/bileto: 77: /snap/bileto/x1/bin/bileto: curl: not found
>> + add-apt-repository ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/
>> /snap/bileto/x1/bin/bileto: 82: /snap/bileto/x1/bin/bileto:
>> add-apt-repository: not found
> Yeah your PATH probably doesn't include those. The execution environment
> for a snap (even a devmode snap) is the core snap, which doesn't include
> e.g. curl. The classic system on which you're presumably running is
> mounted into var/lib/snapd/hostfs, I _think_ (zygmunt can answer with
> more certainty).

(Oops, I missed a leading slash on the /var)

-- 
Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa)
Software Engineer
Canonical Ltd.
kyle at canonical.com


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