On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:08:35AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 17:08 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 19:26 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > > > So I was rather surprised by this Softpaedia article today: > > > http://news.softpedia.com/news/snap-packages-become-the-universal-bin > > > ary-format-for-all-gnu-linux-distributions-505241.shtml > > > It claims that Canonical state that they have been working with > > > Fedora developers to make this the universal packaging format. > > > The snapcraft.io site instructions say to use a COPR by a Canonical > > > employee who is not a Fedora packager. > > > Does anyone in marketing or development now what the article is > > > referring to and what's going on? > > > > Snappy fundamentally relies on apparmour to do confinement (i.e. it > > doesn't use filesystem namespaces like flatpak), how does this work on > > fedora? You can't use selinux and apparmour at the same time, so this > > shouldn't be able to work, unless they disable the containment feature. > > Right now, apparently, their install instructions tell you to disable > SELinux. Permissive mode is what they require: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/zyga/snapcore/ -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- Fedora Marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
