Alternatives to build snaps for closed source

[jksjaz]

I have been following launchpad docs and seems it expects the source to be open and available to the public to use remote-build option. (If I’m not missing something)

I wanna build for raspberry pi 4 - arm64 architecture but having issues with my hardware and also I was not able to find custom script executions on launchpad (for ex: using electon-builder to run the snap build).

Docker is an option but snapping and custom environment on docker is over-complicated.

Any suggestions or alternatives on which way to go about solving the issue.

[ogra]

you could take a look at fabrica:

Your own build.snapcraft.io at home

You like build.snapcraft.io but your git trees are on gitlab ? You prefer to use https://snapcraft.io/gitea for managing your source trees locally ? Your company does not allow your source code to leave the house at all but you want automatic builds for new commits ? You use github but want to build your snaps from some feature branch instead of master ? There is help !!! I have been tinkering with the idea of having Ubuntu Core appliance images that provide a local snap build service since…

[jksjaz]

Thanks man for the help… Can you also tell me how to run electron-builder using it? as I can see it is so minimal and wondering if there is some docs that can help me read about the tool more?

[ogra]

i fear electron-packager wont work (it really relies on calling snapcraft locally on your host, you could surely fork fabrica and make it call electron-builder instead of snapcraft or some such though, the code is on github, but thats a rather complex effort i guess) … have you considered using electron-packager instead ? that allows you to integrate into a normal snapcraft.yaml … here is an example:

ogra1/mattermost-client/blob/master/snap/snapcraft.yaml#L66

[jksjaz]

I have tried using packager but I’ll try it again with your referred configuration. Thanks for the help again though…