On 15 Jun 2016 22:57, "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/06/ubuntu-snap-app
> s-are-coming-to-distros-everywhere-bye-apt-yum/
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> At first glance this looks really interesting and will be available on
> Fedora, though according to the article RedHat haven't yet decided to
> support it officially.
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> Any thoughts?
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>
Be careful of the phrase "be available on Fedora" as it's in a COPR which anyone can create and build in.
There has been no package review request for snapd and the instructions have you disabling selinux in addition to the Fedora build disabling what containment technology snap has in place (which relies on seccomp and apparmor so is disabled in the Arch AUR build as well).
Using snap in a maintainable way (ie being notified of and installing updates) only works with the Ubuntu Store as well, and Canonical have not published any specs much less reference code for custom repositories (the go code actually has the store hard coded, not even config files).
As a consequence I'd strongly advise being wary of this and avoiding it for the time being.
What you should be aware of though is Flatpak which is a cross distro initiative for contained applications similar to Canonical's Snap. This is in Fedora and Arch official repositories right now, and in Debian experimental and am Ubuntu PPA whilst it's being finalised.
This was formally known as xdg-app and had been worked on in an upstream cross distro manner for a number of years now... rather than just being dropped on the world by a single company ;)
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