handling interpreters in *-snapper scripts (or snapcraft)

[Michael Terry]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> if /usr/bin/python is a wrapper instead of the actual interpreter that
> then executes $SNAP_APP_PATH/usr/bin/python, you would cover all
> cases ... but that would indeed mean one such a wrapper per possible
> interpreter shipped inside the core image ...


That feels uglier to me than modifying shebangs at build time, but beauty
is in the eye of the beholder.

More specifically, it feels very unsnappy.  We'd be catering to old-style
code that either is buggy (in case of upstreams with /usr hardcoded) or
written for another platform (in case of deb files that can rightfully
assume /usr).  Plus, it encodes expectations into the core image about how
snaps lay out their files.

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-mt
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