Managing base and other snappy apps

[Manik Taneja]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Eystein Måløy Stenberg <
eystein.stenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the answers everyone!
> I will play a bit more given your input.
>
> webdm seems similar to what I had in mind, is the source code for it
> available somewhere?
>
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snappy-dev/tools
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install snappy-tools bzr

$ bzr branch lp:webdm



> I'm in particular curious about the required security policies (I see it's
> a framework, not an app) and interaction with the snappy CLI manager (if
> that what it's using).
>
yes, you will need to work with Canonical to define custom security
policies for your framework

>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Charles Butler <chuck at dasroot.net> wrote:
>
>> As a side note the webdm snap exists as a front end to snaps for snappy
>> and managing them.
>>
>> It's a great resource for you to model after for your own front end. Hope
>> this helps, I'm pretty fresh on my voyage with snappy my self.
>>
>> If you need additional help I know the fine people in #snappy on freenode
>> are a great complimentary companion to this mailing list.
>>
>> All the best,
>> On Jul 23, 2015 10:21 PM, "Eystein Måløy Stenberg" <
>> eystein.stenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new to Snappy, but have read much of the docs and tried it for a
>>> few hours.
>>> No problems and it looks simple so far, but I had a few questions about
>>> managing snaps.
>>>
>>> On [1] I get a feeling for how the base system itself is updated. But is
>>> this entirely managed with the "ubuntu-core" snap? So if I run "snappy
>>> update ubuntu-core" it will download a new image (if any) to the passive
>>> partition? Or are there other snaps that should be updated as part of the
>>> base system as well (I see "generic-amd64" which sounds like a base snap).
>>> Any other software that comprises a base system update?
>>>
>>> Furthermore, assuming base system update goes well, I should reboot to
>>> the other partition. Is there a preferred method do this (I see a
>>> --automatic-reboot option to snappy update) or will the regular "shutdown
>>> -r now" do the job well enough?
>>>
>>> Is there a way to see which snaps can be updated? I am looking for
>>> something similar to "apt-get -s upgrade". Or would this be the difference
>>> in version between "snappy list -v" and "snappy search"?
>>>
>>> Finally, is there a way for software to manage snaps, just like you can
>>> being logged in as superuser with the "snappy" command? I am planning to
>>> make an application that can update and manage snaps. Supposedly it would
>>> either need to be part of the base OS (which I guess is unlikely it would
>>> be allowed to) or it would have to be packaged as a snap with special
>>> privileges (perhaps as a framework)?
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading to the end and appreciate any help! :)
>>>
>>> [1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/transactional-updates/
>>>
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