Question/Request: Directory for data that should persist over updates.

[roger peppe]

I asked a similar question (subject: "persistent state best
practice?")  back in August and didn't see any replies. I'm still
interested in any answers.

  cheers,
    rog.

On 28 January 2016 at 13:44, Lefteris Karapetsas <lefteris at slock.it> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I asked this question here before but got no answer.
>
> Some snaps, including mine need to store some data, a database let's say, or
> in my case a whole blockchain. So far I was instructed to do that at
> $SNAP_APP_DATA_PATH. This works fine for now but whenever the user updates
> the snap from what I understand this whole directory will be copied into the
> next version's directory, to enable the transaction updating and rollback
> nature of Snappy Ubuntu.
>
> This is not going to work for my snap and I need to ask if there is any
> directory where I can store data for the application that will persist over
> any update. If not then this is something that really should be added at
> some point since I suppose many snaps will need to utilize behaviour like
> this.
>
> Best Regards,
>
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