Tracking Ubuntu archive staged packages within a snap

[Mark Shuttleworth]

This seems like a nice way to enable auto-hunting for out-of-date snaps,
thanks Jamie!

Mark

On 11/02/16 21:06, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Snapcraft makes it easy to grab packages from the Ubuntu archive, which
> is great! Snapcraft is in a position to record what versions of
> packages were installed and from where. This would be super useful
> information to have to see if your staged packages are out of date.
>
> There are a number of ways to handle this and Martin Albisetti and I
> thought perhaps the easiest would be for snapcraft to create a manifest
> of installed packages that the store could consume so the store could
> let people know if the packages in the snap are out of date (eg, for a
> security update). Inclusion of the manifest would be optional. If a
> developer doesn't want to use the manifest, it could be left out of the
> snap. I think the minimal information in this manifest would be each
> binary, its version and the Ubuntu release the packages from where it
> came from.
>
> If people agree with the general idea, then I'll file a bug.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>

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