[RFC] Improving hardware access for snaps

[Jamie Strandboge]

On 01/30/2015 04:18 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote:

...

> = UX =
> Relevant packaging yaml:
>   name: foo
>   version: 0.1
>   ...
>   services:
>     - name: bar
>       start: bin/bar
>     - name: baz
>       start: bin/baz
> 
> 
> == adding access ==
> $ snappy install foo
> ...
> 
> $ snappy add-hw foo.bar /dev/ttyS0
> 'foo.bar' is now allowed to access /dev/ttyS0

Hmm, one thing that occurred to me is that while we want to give the device
access to a particular service/cli binary, I don't think users have a way to see
what services/cli binaries a snap provides, do they? In other words:

$ snappy install foo
...
$ snappy add-hw foo.bar /dev/ttyS0


How does the user know to specify 'foo.bar'? Does the new snappy cli UX cover
this anywhere? If not, we'll can leave the original proposal, but prompt when
the user specifies only the package name and when there is more than one
service/cli binary to choose from (like in the above yaml example). Eg:

$ snappy install foo
...

$ snappy add-hw foo /dev/ttyS0             <=== only package name specified
Add access to '/dev/ttyS0' for which of the following:
[1] foo.bar
[2] foo.baz
[3] all of the above

> 1
'foo.bar' is now allowed to access /dev/ttyS0


$ snappy add-hw foo.bar /dev/ttyS1         <=== package name + service specified
'foo.bar' is now allowed to access /dev/ttyS1



-- 
Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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