Can't build pc-amd64-gadget

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#1

Hi,

When I build the stock pc-amd64-gadget tree directly after git clone https://github.com/snapcore/pc-amd64-gadget with either the latest/stable snapcraft or 6.x/stable snapcraft, either with --use-lxd or on my host with --destructive-mode, I get the following build error:

The package grub-efi-amd64-signed has unmet dependencies:

Any suggestions since I need to build a new gadget?

Thank you!

#2

The issue may be that the highest version of the grub-efi-amd64-signed deb for a system that uses focal-updates and the uc-staging-ppa PPA is 2:1.167.2+2.04-1ubuntu44.2. This lives in the PPA. This version requires a specific version of grub-efi-amd64-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu44.2), but there is a higher version of that package in focal-updates archive (2.04-1ubuntu47.4), so grub-efi-amd64-signed cannot be installed as needed to build the gadget.

The resolution may be to bump the version (and requirements) of the grub-efi-amd64-signed and grub-efi-amd64-bin packages in the PPA so that they are higher than the ones in the focal-update archive.

Details:

The pc-amd64-gadget snapcraft.yaml specifies the following PPA: ppa: ucdev/uc-staging-ppa

It then adds the following deb to the snap: stage-packages:

  • grub-efi-amd64-signed

The grub-efi-amd64-signed in the PPA version is: 2.167.2+2.04-1ubuntu44.2

$ apt policy grub-efi-amd64-signed
grub-efi-amd64-signed:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:1.167.2+2.04-1ubuntu44.2
  Version table:
     2:1.167.2+2.04-1ubuntu44.2 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ucdev/uc-staging-ppa/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
     1.173.2~20.04.1+2.04-1ubuntu47.4 500
[ . . . ]

This version of grub-efi-amd64-signed depends on a specific version of grub-efi-amd64-bin:

$ sudo apt install -s grub-efi-amd64-signed
[ . . . ]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 grub-efi-amd64-signed : Depends: grub-efi-amd64-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu44.2)

But, the focal-updates archive has a higher version of that package:

$ apt policy grub-efi-amd64-bin
grub-efi-amd64-bin:
  Installed: 2.04-1ubuntu47.4
  Candidate: 2.04-1ubuntu47.4
  Version table:
 *** 2.04-1ubuntu47.4 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I think this means the first package cannot be installed because it requires grub-efi-amd64-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu44.2) but grub-efi-amd64-bin 2.04-1ubuntu47.4 it the highest available.

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#3

Is there a workaround for this? I have the same problem.

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#4

Hi, we run into the same issue when building the gadget snap. Not sure if it is the case that the updated snapcraft.yaml file can work for uc22 but not uc20.

#5

i have been working on a new approach for custom gadget snaps that simply re-use the existing snap from the store instead of needing to pull deb packages from anywhere … i currently only have a core22 source tree around at:

… but plan to also have a core20 tree eventually

feel free to try this out, it should definitely work around the annoyances that relying on PPAs brings along.