Snapcraft utilities library

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I’ve collected several (3 so far) miscellaneous patterns into a single repository that is easy to grok. The current patterns in the library are:

  • GTK App Localisations
  • GTK theme fix for apps running under Wayland
  • Cleanup routine to run last in the build, which clears your snap of any files that are supplied by the base snap or any content snaps you use
  • Extensible hooks allowing you to have multple scripts for each hook
  • Dynamic linker cache which pre-caches your dynamic libraries for faster start time
    • uses the extensible hooks feature above

The patterns are all available in both a manual add to snapcraft.yaml yourself format and a jsonnet version for use with my sc-jsonnet utility. Find out more about sc-jsonnet at its website.

You can find the library at https://snapcraft-utils-library.readthedocs.io/.

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Added two new libraries:

  • Extensible hooks
  • Dynamic linker cache
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Very interesting stuff! Thanks for all of that.

Are there any plans for “upstreaming” those patterns and “upgrading” them to proper extensions? I’m mainly thinking about the dynamic linker cache.