FEDORA-2017-2e4459fa03 — enhancement update for snapd and snapd-glib

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snapd-2.26.3-3.fc25 and snapd-glib-1.12-1.fc25

FEDORA-2017-2e4459fa03 created by ngompa 6 years ago for Fedora 25

Update to snapd v2.26.3 and snapd-glib v1.12.

Some of the upstream snapd v2.26.3 software highlights (from the Snappy team):

support tab-completion in snaps, i.e a snap can ship a bash completion script and it will get exported to the users shell
new snap whoami command
new snap refresh --time option that displays information about refresh settings
new snap tasks --last={refresh,install,remove,connect,disconnect,configure,try} option
Improve snap info output
Improve tab completion for interfaces
Mediate netlink sockets via seccomp
Go 1.8 fixes
Interface API improvements
new interfaces: random, network-status, online-account-service, storage-framework
Interface improvements: browser-support, locale-control, dbus

From snapd 2.25:

Improved aliases implementation, details in https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/improving-the-aliases-implementation/18
Improved channels support (tracks), see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/channels-2-0-implementation/156
Per-revision snapshots of the snap configuration refresh schedule support, see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/refresh-schedule-via-core-config/434
Cross distro improvements (Xauthority handling, etc.)
Test improvements (more spread tests)
More fine-grained seccomp support for ioctl and quotactl
Download robustness improvements (auto retry on hashsum and RST issues)
New snap tasks command
Speedup for device key generation on Pi 2 and Pi 3
New interfaces: media-hub, kubernetes-support
Interface improvements

Highlights for snapd-glib v1.12 since v1.10:

New API:
- snapd_client_install2_async
- snapd_client_install2_finish
- snapd_client_install2_sync
- snapd_system_information_get_binaries_directory
- snapd_system_information_get_kernel_version
- snapd_system_information_get_mount_directory
Fix calls not working inside threads.
Fix reference counting error when calling snapd_client_get_interfaces and snapd_client_create_user.
Deprecated API:
- snapd_client_install_async
- snapd_client_install_finish
- snapd_client_install_sync

Packaging specific improvements:

Final removal of snapd will trigger removal of all Snappy content

How to install

Updates may require up to 24 hours to propagate to mirrors. If the following command doesn't work, please retry later:

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2017-2e4459fa03

This update has been submitted for testing by ngompa.

6 years ago

snapd-2.25-1.fc25 ejected from the push because u"Cannot find relevant tag for snapd-2.25-1.fc25. None of ['f25-updates-testing', 'f25-updates-testing-pending'] are in [u'f22-updates-candidate', u'dist-6E-epel-testing-candidate', u'f21-updates-candidate', u'f24-updates-candidate', u'f26-updates-candidate', u'epel7-testing-candidate', u'f25-updates-candidate', u'f23-updates-candidate', u'dist-5E-epel-testing-candidate']."

6 years ago

This update has been submitted for testing by mohanboddu.

6 years ago

This update has been pushed to testing.

6 years ago

mrmorph commented & provided feedback 6 years ago

karma

The update to snapd 2.25 is fine for me, however the fix for #1444422 doesn't do what it is supposed to do.

After removal of the snapd package all snaps get unmounted but content in /var/lib/snapd/ still remains. .snap files are removed but the database /var/lib/snapd/state.json remains which will lead to broken snaps reported when snapd is installed on the system again.

BZ#1444422 /var/lib/snapd not removed when removing snapd

BZ#1446605 snapd-2.25 is available

This update has reached 7 days in testing and can be pushed to stable now if the maintainer wishes

6 years ago

ngompa edited this update.

New build(s):

snapd-glib-1.12-1.fc25
snapd-2.26.3-1.fc25

Removed build(s):

snapd-2.25-1.fc25

Karma has been reset.

6 years ago

This update has been submitted for testing by ngompa.

6 years ago

This update has been pushed to testing.

6 years ago

ngompa edited this update.

New build(s):

snapd-2.26.3-2.fc25

Removed build(s):

snapd-2.26.3-1.fc25

Karma has been reset.

6 years ago

This update has been submitted for testing by ngompa.

6 years ago

This update has been pushed to testing.

6 years ago

jhasse commented & provided feedback 6 years ago

karma

Still a few things left after removing snapd:

$ tree /var/lib/snapd/ 
/var/lib/snapd/
├── desktop
│   └── applications
│       └── mimeinfo.cache
└── device

3 directories, 1 file

BZ#1444422 /var/lib/snapd not removed when removing snapd

ngompa edited this update.

New build(s):

snapd-2.26.3-3.fc25

Removed build(s):

snapd-2.26.3-2.fc25

Karma has been reset.

6 years ago

This update has been submitted for testing by ngompa.

6 years ago

This update has been pushed to testing.

6 years ago

This update has reached 7 days in testing and can be pushed to stable now if the maintainer wishes

6 years ago

This update has been submitted for stable by ngompa.

6 years ago

This update has been pushed to stable.

6 years ago

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Metadata

Type

enhancement

Karma

Signed

Content Type

RPM

Test Gating

None

Builds

snapd-2.26.3-3.fc25

snapd-glib-1.12-1.fc25

Settings

Unstable by Karma

-3

Stable by Karma

Stable by Time

disabled

Dates

submitted

6 years ago

in testing

6 years ago

in stable

6 years ago

modified

6 years ago

BZ#1444422 /var/lib/snapd not removed when removing snapd

BZ#1446605 snapd-2.25 is available

BZ#1448027 snapd-glib-1.12 is available

BZ#1450242 snapd-2.26.3 is available

snapd-2.26.3-3.fc25

snapd-glib-1.12-1.fc25

Automated Test Results

None