snappy-go is now the default on devel-proposed

Sergio Schvezov sergio.schvezov at canonical.com
Fri Mar 27 23:23:19 UTC 2015


On viernes 27 de marzo de 2015 19h'25:52 ART, Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 03:14:51PM -0700, Theo Julienne wrote:
>> We just noticed this morning that the introduction of the Go version
>> breaks ubuntu-device-flash and the "--install" option for armhf targets,
>> since there seems to be a long-lasting incompatibility[1] between Go and
>> qemu-arm-static (which is presumably used to run snappy install in the
>> chroot). This isn't so much a bug in the Go version itself, just a general
>> incompatibility, but it has broken all our builds.
>
> Thanks for this feedback and sorry to hear about this issue.
>
>> I haven't actually delved into the internals of ubuntu-device-flash, but I
>> noticed this error in our own qemu arm chroots so imagine it is caused by
>> the same (above) issue.
>
> As far as I know (Sergio will correct me if I'm wrong :) there is a
> new version of ubuntu-device-flash almost ready that avoids using
> qemu-arm and uses a new feature in snappy-go instead that allows
> setting alternative root dirs for working with snaps.

This is correct, I'll provide an update as soon as this is in and it should 
be no later than Monday morning.



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