How to make pre-installed snaps work with --devmode from u-d-f ?

[Jamie Strandboge]

On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 09:07 +0200, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The way images are built is being reorganized now. What this means for
> you in practice:
>  - you will be able to define what an image should contain in a simple
> file (model assertion)
>  - the new ubuntu-image tool will take that assertion and create an image
>  - on first boot, everything will be installed by snapd
>  - if your snap has confinement: devmode it will be installed as such
> (I'll confirm with the rest of the team to be sure)
> 
I'm not sure if you are talking about the image generation process only, but I
thought for normal install the 'confinement' flag in the yaml indicates that the
snap cannot be installed without specifying --devmode. If it is instead simply a
way to tell 'snap install' to install in devmode without specifying --devmode,
then we've effectively reintroduced 'unconfined' and people might install things
thinking they are confined when they are not.

Speaking of which-- do we indicate anywhere that a snap is operating in devmode?
I just installed hello-world with --devmode and I don't see in 'snap list' or
'snap interfaces' anything indicating it is in devmode.

-- 
Jamie Strandboge             | http://www.canonical.com

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