On 15/09/16 08:11, Robert Park wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Zygmunt Krynicki
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As discussed a few times this is technically challenging to do.
>>
>> All of “classic” is visible from /var/lib/snapd/hostfs/ but there is no 
>> guarantee that you can run them in any way. They may require the classic 
>> dynamic linker, the classic runtime libraries and the classic filesystem 
>> layout that are all lost when snap-confine sets up the execution 
>> environment. If there’s desire to run executables from the outside we could 
>> look for solutions but this is not as simple as “just use devmode”
> Yes, see my other thread where I have a script that needs to add a
> PPA, even running in devmode and chrooting back to
> /var/lib/snapd/hostfs, everything is still broken. Would be great if
> snap offered some alternative for shell scripts that need to just run
> unrestricted on the host system.


Right, I think this is a discussion about snapping up CLI utilities. It
would be great to have an awk-of-the-day :)

Mark


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