Snapcraft on macOS regressed and is no longer working showing an error: “You need ‘multipass’ set-up to build snaps: https://multipass.run.” Installing mulitpass requires permission to run background tasks.
Is there a way to run snapcraft on macOS without this limitation or is the recommended alternative to deprecate Snap support?
What has changed in Snapcraft on macOS that now says this? I was under the impression Snapcraft on macOS always required Multipass to work. Is this true?
Also, yes, Multipass has a background process that runs and always has from day one. I’m not sure why this is a problem now.
Yes, Multipass was always a requirement on mac. I don’t think we changed anything on the Snapcraft side, let’s check with @mr_cal.
I agree with @cmatsuoka - Multipass was always a requirement for MacOS.
Last year, there was some minor internal refactoring to support the snap configuration snap set snapcraft provider=<provider>, but the Multipass+MacOS requirement should be unchanged.
Ok, based on the feedback of @cmatsuoka and @mr_cal, I’m not sure what the regression is here. Multipass has always been required to build snaps on macOS and Multipass has always had a background service running on macOS (and Linux & WIndows for that matter). I don’t think there a reason to deprecate anything here.
