Tracking Ubuntu archive staged packages within a snap

[Jamie Strandboge]

On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 21:29 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> This seems like a nice way to enable auto-hunting for out-of-date
> snaps,
> thanks Jamie!
> 
FYI, filed a bug for this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/1547158


> 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 information to have to see if your staged packages are out of date.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 let people know if the packages in the snap are out of date (eg,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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Jamie Strandboge             | http://www.canonical.com

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