Public bug reported: Hi,
the snap naming scheme to rename executables to snapname.appname can severely break functionality. I just had the problem that ubuntu's packages for the rust language compiler are outdated and don't compile recent code, and therefore created my first snap to pack the distributed compiler and tools suite into a snap (see https://github.com/hadmut/snap-rustc ). The rust compiler+tools and snap would perfectly match each other, since rust is rather system independent, and it would work just perfectly as a snap, but the renaming scheme causes trouble since tools don't find each other. I then found several discussions about the aliasing of apps, snap aliases and the aliases: clause in snapcraft.yaml, but found the automatic way in snapcraft.yaml to be not working. It is included in meta/snap.yaml, but ignored and still requires a manual alias command. This is currently somewhat annoying since it is currently unclear and not documented about how to get around that naming scheme in a clean and user-comprehensible way. It currently looks as if aliases need to be set manually, but I don't see how to tell users that they have to do it and how after installing the snap. regards Hadmut ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04 Package: snapd 2.27.5+17.04 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-37.41-generic 4.10.17 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-37-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Fri Oct 20 10:08:17 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (545 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420) SourcePackage: snapd UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-04-18 (184 days ago) ** Affects: snapd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug zesty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1725198 Title: snap's naming scheme for executables breaks functionality and state of aliases is unclear To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1725198/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
