Snaps on armbian

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This is just a headsup …

I was working on a nanopi-air Ubuntu Core image on the weekend and for looking up some working setup i test-wise installed the Ubuntu Server build of armbian on the board …

While the kernel is not actually capable to support full confinement I pleasantly noticed that snaps work fine anyway … even classic ones:

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Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.32.170629 nightly Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS 4.11.7-sun8i   
System load:   0.33 1.96 1.97  	Up time:       33 min		
Memory usage:  10 % of 496MB  	IP:            192.168.2.70,10.227.210.1
CPU temp:      32°C           	
Usage of /:    40% of 3.5G   	

[ 0 security updates available, 24 updates total: apt upgrade ]
Last check: 2017-06-28 13:17

[ General system configuration: armbian-config ]
Last login: Mon Aug 21 13:56:53 2017 from 192.168.2.74

ogra@nanopiair:~$
ogra@nanopiair:~$ sudo apt install snapd
...
ogra@nanopiair:~$ snap version
snap    2.26.10
snapd   2.26.10
series  16
ubuntu  16.04
kernel  4.11.7-sun8i
ogra@nanopiair:~$ sudo snap install core
...
ogra@nanopiair:~$ sudo snap install snapcraft --edge --classic
...
ogra@nanopiair:~$ sudo apt install git
...
ogra@nanopiair:~$ git clone https://github.com/ogra1/beaglebone-gadget.git
...
ogra@nanopiair:~$ cd beaglebone-gadget
ogra@nanopiair:~/beaglebone-gadget$ snapcraft
Installing build dependencies: libexpat1 libexpat1-dev libpython2.7 libpython2.7-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
...
Priming uboot 
Snapping 'bbb' -                                                                                     
Snapped bbb_16-0.1_armhf.snap
ogra@nanopiair:~/beaglebone-gadget$ ls *.snap
bbb_16-0.1_armhf.snap
ogra@nanopiair:~/beaglebone-gadget$
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Looks great, does 2.27.x also work? (in candidate channel)

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looks ok …

ogra@nanopiair:~$ sudo snap refresh core --candidate
[sudo] password for ogra: 
2017-08-21T15:55:19Z INFO Waiting for restart...
core (candidate) 16-2.27.2 from 'canonical' refreshed
ogra@nanopiair:~$ snap version
snap    2.27.2
snapd   2.27.2
series  16
ubuntu  16.04
kernel  4.11.7-sun8i
ogra@nanopiair:~$

the installed snaps still run as well … (just completely unconfined due to the unsupported kernel)