arm architecture support example

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, 25. Januar 2016 16:42:03 CET schrieb Luca Capra:
> Dear,
> do you know if there is preferred approach to snap packaging over
> multi-architecure?
> 
> I mean, is it preferred to have many snap per architecture or one that
> handle internally the arch as you did for your grafana?
> 

What I usually do if I want a multi arch snap is to have one subdir per 
binary arch in my snap and use wrapper scripts for executables and services 
that set PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH based on the value of "uname -m"... But 
this is:

a) not easily doable with snapcraft which makes maintaining the package a 
lot more work
and...
b) results in gigantic snaps that waste the users diskspace

So while you have the freedom to build such snaps today it is practically a 
lot of extra work... I personally resorted to just apped the architecture 
name to the snap name and maintain multiple store entries til the store 
actually supports multiple binary snaps for a single store entry under the 
same name.

ciao
.. oli

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