Rust snap

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Hello,

I’ve created initial snap packaging for core Rust tools (cargo and rustc, for now).

Snap’s confinement is set to strict at the moment, building and installing Rust crates is working, but:

  • it would be nice for user to have access to cargo’s temporary build directory located in /tmp,
    this is not possible without classic confinement AFAIK
  • binaries are now being installed to $HOME/snap/rust/current/.cargo/bin
    and I think that cargo should respect CARGO_HOME which defaults normally to $HOME/.cargo/bin

I’ve tried changing confinement to classic but then snapcraft layout seemed to not work, as rustc is looking for static libraries in /usr/lib/$SNAPCRAFT_ARCH_TRIPLET.

So, ideally, it would be great to somehow allow cargo to access host /tmp directory, so if build fails, user can easily debug what’s wrong. Currently it is not possible without root to access /tmp/snap.rust directory.

Do you think it would be better to stick with strict confinement and tinker a bit with issues listed above or switch to classic and address the only issue where rustc can’t find static libraries? Either way, I could use some help here.

https://snapcraft.io/rust
https://github.com/dawidd6/rust-snap

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