Re: [PATCH v3] scripts/package: snap-pkg target

[Paolo Pisati]

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Jim Davis <jim.epost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If I run /snap/bin/snapcraft --version now on that Ubuntu 16.04 VM I
> am getting 2.36+git2.ae61453.

Yep, the edge channel follows the bleeding edge:

$ snap info snapcraft
...
channels:
  stable:    2.35                (794) 53MB classic
  candidate: â
  beta:      2.36.1              (876) 53MB classic
  edge:      2.36.1+git6.3524514 (895) 53MB classic

you better switch to beta (and then stable when 2.36.1 gets promoted there):

$ snap refresh --beta snapcraft

> I noticed that if I tried to make snap-pkg with the O=/some/dir option
> the tar step failed but the rest of the build continued, and seems to
> have finished successfully.  Should the snap-pkg target stop after a
> tar failure?

That is weird, how did you do that?

My experience with the O=... option (that mimicks the other rpm-pkg
and deb-pkg targets) is that, you first create the dir, copy there the
.config and it builds fine:

~/linux $ mke defconfig
...
~/linux $ mkdir /tmp/foobar
~/linux $ mv .config /tmp/foobar
~/linux $ git clean -ffdx
~/linux $ make O=/tmp/foobar snap-pkg
...
Snapped kernel_4.14.0+_amd64.snap
~/linux $ ls -la /tmp/foobar/snap/
-rw-r--r-- 1 flag flag 14114816 dic  5 12:41 kernel_4.14.0+_amd64.snap
drwxrwxr-x 3 flag flag     4096 dic  5 12:38 parts
drwxrwxr-x 4 flag flag     4096 dic  5 12:41 prime
drwxrwxr-x 3 flag flag     4096 dic  5 12:38 snap
-rw-rw-r-- 1 flag flag      274 dic  5 12:38 snapcraft.yaml
drwxrwxr-x 3 flag flag     4096 dic  5 12:41 stage




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bye,
p.