Creating a custom Checkbox application for Ubuntu Core testing

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Hi,

I’ve followed the tutorial on the checkbox

When trying to build the custom checkbox-snap, the plugin which is declared in the snapcraft.yaml is not found:

Failed to load plugin: unknown plugin: 'checkbox-provider’

Do I miss any prerequisites or can anyone tell me whats the best way to use checkbox in a snap with own testcases?

Thanks

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Snapcraft 4.x has deprecated the way we designed the checkbox provider plugin. We’re working on updating our autoconf helpers to match the new version. Please note that building with a base core20 requires a different version of the local plugin (must be V2 compliant). Support for it landed in snapcraft stable channel two days ago.

So, are you building for a base core20?

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I did build against core18, cloned the repository from the tutorial without any further changes.

Changing the snapcraft.yaml and building with base core20 leads to the same error.

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Is there a timeline from your side when to expect the checkbox-provider plugin to be working with snapcraft 4.x?

Thanks

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Support for base: core18 has just landed in our configure scripts.

The following command will give you a snap skeleton for base18/classic/provider_included:

$ git clone git+ssh://git.launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/checkbox/+git/checkbox-configure
$ autoconf
$ ./configure project=baz base=18 --enable-classic --with-provider-included && ./cleanup.sh
$ snapcraft --destructive-mode

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And support for base: core20 is also available:

The following command will give you a snap skeleton for base20/classic/provider_included:

$ git clone git+ssh://git.launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/checkbox/+git/checkbox-configure
$ autoconf
$ ./configure project=baz base=20 --enable-classic --with-provider-included && ./cleanup.sh
$ snapcraft --destructive-mode
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Thank you, i will try it with the new configure scripts

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Hello Sylvain,

We followed the new configure scripts. Tried to have the hello world id in jobs.pxu file along with defining hello_world id under nested part in test-plan.pxu file of the checkbox-configure project.

Able to build the snap and could install on the hardware. But when tried to test this, unable to list “hello-world” test from the job list.