Linux Mint 20 disables deb2snap packages, and Snap's growing external adoption problem

[ivo.cavalcante]

Disabling automatic refresh for snap from store

I really need some way to disable the automatic updates of Snap’s from the store. As far as I know this isn’t possible right now. Background: I’m the maintainer of the FRR Snap (See FRRouting.org), a routing daemon implementing all the different routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, PIM, etc). Snap’s are great, specially for installation on Whitebox switches, but the automatic update is killing it. Whenever I push a new snap to the store, all the users have a unexpected outage for a few min…