Writable directories in /var/snap?

[Kyle Fazzari]

On 09/18/2016 02:55 PM, Otfried Cheong wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016, at 23:18, David Callé wrote:
>
>     You also have $SNAP_USER_COMMON: ~/snap/<packagename>/common/ , that
>     persists between upgrades of the snap.
>
>
> $SNAP_USER_COMMON is not created automatically when the snap is
> installed, and trying to create it from the snap fails (permission
> denied).    
>
> If I create it from the host I can then access it from the snap, it
> seems, but not being able to create the directory makes it somewhat hard
> to use...

Indeed, a known bug[1] that should be fixed soon.

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1611063

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


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snapcraft/attachments/20160918/a0a5b602/attachment.sig>