Call for testing: Snapcraft 7

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Couldn’t use snapcore/action-build to build snap on GitHub with snapcraft 7.0 beta or candidate (reported in action hangs forever with snapcraft beta/7.0 · Issue #37 · snapcore/action-build (github.com)

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I found a bug either in snapcraft 7 or in the documentation: Cannot use adapter: none with snapcraft 7.0.1 and base: core22

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@mchinoune, thanks for finding this. core22 is including the dependencies of libpng16-16, which is causing some directory conflicts. I’m not aware of any workaround right now, let me get back to you with a solution.

@zyga, good catch, thanks. It’s not clear in the migration guide or documentation that adapter has been deprecated for core22.

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Are adapters entirely gone now? Is there a way to do something similar?

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Thanks for reporting. PR #3767 should fix this.

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The adapter: key and the runner script are gone (and should have left some kind of explanatory message), but the functionality is still there. The migration guide should cover the details on how to override the variables.

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I have removed that dependency as a workaround (since gl2ps is just a part, and libpng16-16 is already a dependency of the app), but still get the same error.

Note that I start getting this message when building gl2ps that I don’t see with snapcraft 6.1:

fix symlink: path='/home/runner/work/makhber/makhber/parts/gl2ps/install/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2', unpack_dir='/home/runner/work/makhber/makhber/parts/gl2ps/install', root='/home/runner/work/makhber/makhber/parts/gl2ps/install/lib64'
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A workaround is to not install pyqt5-sip using python plugin

  pyqt5-sip:
    source: .
    plugin: make
    build-packages:
      - python3-pip
    override-build: |
      pip3 install pyqt5-sip --target=$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
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This is a debug message from the parts processing library and shouldn’t appear to Snapcraft users in non-debug modes (@facundobatista, I believe this is another issue to address in craft-cli).

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Another issue: It seems like snapcraft no longer check and warn about missing runtime libraries.

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7.0.2 on candidate should address this issue

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Do you mind trying 7.0.2 in candidate now?

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7.0.2 now in candidate should address this issue

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You are spot on and I missed this in the release notes, we are working on a snapcraft lint command to address all these warnings and errors.

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7.0.2 is giving me errors while building the core22 snap using https://github.com/snapcore/core-base/pull/45 :

$ snapcraft 
Launching instance...                                                                                                                                  
Installed package repositories                                                                                                                         
Executed: pull probert-deb                                                                                                                             
Executed: pull consoleconf-deb                                                                                                                         
/root/project/parts/bootstrap/install/var/cache/apt/archives/lock: Permission denied                                                                   
Full execution log: '/tmp/snapcraft.log'                                                                                                               
Failed to execute pack in instance.                                                                                                                    
Full execution log: '/home/abeato/.cache/snapcraft/log/snapcraft-20220531-112755.736487.log'

Log is: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/pT4W7K3Mcc/

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@cmatsuoka another one to look at :point_up:

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Successive builds now work flawlessly on 7.0.2 with no shutil.SameFileError issues. Thanks!

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This seems to be caused by extra files in the project directory that shouldn’t be there (maybe leftovers from a previous execution in destructive mode?). Note that inside the container our work directory is /root/part instead of /root/project/part – the latter is considered part of the project. To solve this, remove directories parts, stage, prime from the project directory, run snapcraft clean to start from a well-defined state and pack again.

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I managed to build our uc22 version of the network-manager snap with snapcraft 7.0.2 after making the suggested changes (https://git.launchpad.net/~awe/snappy-hwe-snaps/+git/network-manager/log/?h=snap-22-craft7x). The only thing I ran into that wasn’t mentioned in the migration guide was the removal of filesets, which I just replaced with prime filtering.

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Maybe I’m misunderstanding the migration guide? A command-chain allowed for more than just control over the app’s environment. In the past I’ve used it for running snapcraft_preload, providing a wrapper script that dynamically sets env vars for a number of apps based on snap configuration, or using setpriv from a script to run postgresql as the snap_daemon user (these are all examples from the edgexfoundry snap).

Are any of these use cases still possible?