I’m trying to compile snapcraft in order to better understand the behaviour of certain plugins by following this document HACKING.md.
Once inside the environment (lxc exec snapcraft-dev -- sudo -iu ubuntu bash) how should the compilation be launched? I’ve seen there’s a snap folder, should this be leveraged to create a new snapcraft snap?
I followed that guide and then navigated to ./snapcraft and used snapcraft --destructive-mode to build inside the lxd container. If you just snapcraft it will try to use multipass inside the lxd container which seems overkill to nest a VM inside the container.
--destructive-mode is intended to be used in CI systems where the machine is ephemeral, and clean before the application is built.
That worked…
Staging bash-completion
Skipping stage snapcraft-libs (already ran)
Staging legacy-snapcraft
Staging patchelf
Staging snapcraft
Priming bash-completion
Priming snapcraft-libs
Priming legacy-snapcraft
Priming patchelf
Priming snapcraft
Compiling pyc files...
Snapping 'snapcraft' |
Snapped snapcraft_3.7.2+git35.gfa5fbf5_amd64.snap
(snapcraft) ubuntu@snapcraft-dev:~/snapcraft$