Improving the aliases implementation

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@pedronis can you take a look at @kyrofa’s proposal?

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FYI, the review-tools have been updated to show a deprecation message, but currently at ‘info’ level which won’t block automated reviews. When the time is right, we can change this from ‘info’ to ‘warn’.

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@pedronis - is the time right to adjust the review tools to trigger manual review if specifying v1 aliases?

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Was that ever done? Yes, we should definitely be blocking old aliases by now.

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No, it wasn’t because I didn’t get an answer. You gave it, so I’ll update the tools accordingly.

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What’s the status of support in different distributions now? I have been maintaining old-style aliases in snapcraft.yaml because the last time I looked, distros other than Ubuntu were on older snapd versions that didn’t support the store aliases.

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Good question. @mvo?

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Hi Folks,

Is there any way to include aliases in the snap package?

I tried to use the configure and install hook to run the script with the “sudo snap alias” stanza, but got the error “snap hello has install-snap change in progress.”.

Can anyone suggest a workaround or correct way in which hooks may be used?

Thanks in Advance, Eugene

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Please have a look at the documentation, specifically https://snapcraft.io/docs/deprecation-notice-5

Just FYI, a snap will obviously not be able to change the user’s environment and create an alias itself. Aliases can either be created manually https://snapcraft.io/docs/commands-and-aliases#p-19557-application-commands or automatically if approved by the snap store (where still if there is a conflict and alias would not be created).

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Hi,

Thanks for the answer.

Actually, I want to create manual aliases for my snap with the install procedure. It is possible to create a symbolic link to /snap/mysnap/current/usr/local/bin/mysnap with the install hook, but I’m not sure that is the correct way. When I tried to use the “snap alias” shell command with the insall hook, I got the error: “snap hello has install-snap change in progress.”

Thanks, Eugene

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There is no way to do this from an install hook, you will have to open a store request to get aliases granted by the store team, then they will be put automatically in place by snapd at install time.