A noob trying to make an etherpad-lite snap with lots of questions

[Winael]

Hi Everyone

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:27 PM Alexander Sack <asac at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Winael <vinzjobard at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:25 PM Winael <vinzjobard at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Alexander,
> >>
> >> Le mar. 16 févr. 2016 17:40, Alexander Sack <asac at canonical.com> a
> écrit :
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I already made snapcraft recipe for etherpad-lite, just get:
> >>> https://github.com/asac/etherpad-lite/tree/snap-support,
> >>> cd into the bin/snappy folder and run "snapcraft snap" there...
> >>>
> >>> The direct link to the snapcraft.yaml is here:
> >>>
> >>>
> https://github.com/asac/etherpad-lite/blob/snap-support/bin/snappy/snapcraft.yaml
> >
> >
> > I take a look yesterday. So as I understand, you're making your
> > etherpad-lite snapp from a fork of etherpad ?
>
> no its not a fork .. its actually pretty much the upstrema
> etherpad-lite... i think there is a total of one minor patch to fix a
> bug in their code that prevents you from run it independent location.
> the rest is just reusing what they already did... The fact that i put
> the snapcraft.yaml inside their tree is just because i plan to get
> this into their upstream code base....
>

Could be great, indeed

>
> I had an out of tree variant that basically did almost the same ...
> https://github.com/asac/etherpad-lite-snap
>
> ... that one just requires one patch to snapcraft that i didnt land
> because in the end i went for the in-tree variant...
>
> >
> > Pretty interesting to study.
> >
> > But as I understand; we can directly generate and build parts of snapp
> with
> > snapcraft receipe.
> >
> > I take a look at what my snapcraft.yaml generate, and I see that in my
> stage
> > folder I have part of etherpad-lite built (all the nodejs things)
> >
> > I tried to integrate into my stage/bin folder all I have in
> > parts/etherpad-lite/src/bin but no success.
> >
> > Do you think that a copy plugin could be useful or something else ?
> >
> > After that I think I'll have to create a modified version of bin/run.sh
> and
> > bin/installDeps.sh to overload them
> >
> > What do you think ?
>
> so yes, you would need to do your own script for packaging stuff ...
> and your own script for unning as the upstream version is just munging
> install and run in one thing so you cannot separate packaging and
> ruinning right now in upstream codebase...
>
> But then, thats exactly what i did ... i use npm instlal to do all the
> install stuff... and then have my own run script.
>

But I don't understand. When I launch snapcraft stage command, I see that
snapcraft is pull the source of etherpad-lite from github, build it in
parts/etherpad-lite/install folder and then copy the content of this folder
to the folder stage

So how can I copy other folder from parts/etherpad-lite/src folder to the
stage folder ? Is it possible juste with snapcraft.yaml ?


>
>  - Alexander
>

Cheers
Winael
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