On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 00:45 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > On 15 Jun 2016 22:57, "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > > http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/06/ubuntu-snap > > -app > > s-are-coming-to-distros-everywhere-bye-apt-yum/ > > > > 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. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > > 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 ;) Thanks, that's the perspective I was looking for. I support the principal of a cross-distro package and repo system if it can be done right, but from what you say this may not be it, at least not yet. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
