Re: Interface management in the context of snap in a classical Debian install

2017-01-09 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
Bumping this up again since I didnt seem to have received a reply. Was my question sufficiently clear? -- Luther On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:39 PM, Luther Goh Lu Feng wrote: I am considering the scenario where snap is installed in a classical Debian install. I intend to package my

Re: Slow snap build on Ubuntu Core device

2017-01-10 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
Based on the screenshot, your download speed for the packages seems to be very slow. Perhaps you want to use a faster mirror. Maybe you can try netselect-apt as mentioned here[1]. HTH. Thanks. -- Luther [1] https://www.unixmen.com/find-fastest-mirror-debian-derivatives/ On Tuesday, Januar

Re: Slow snap build on Ubuntu Core device

2017-01-10 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
Oops sorry! I totally forgot that this isnt classical Ubuntu! Ignore my last message please! On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 11:49 PM, Luther Goh Lu Feng wrote: Based on the screenshot, your download speed for the packages seems to be very slow. Perhaps you want to use a faster mirror. Maybe

Relationship between snaps and containers, if any

2017-01-24 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I seek clarity in understanding how docker containers are different from snaps. The question originated as I pondered if docker containers are the equivalent of snaps. Is there a blog post or FAQ somewhere that already addresses this? I also read this article[1], though dated, mentions docker s

Snap install issues upon hard kill with Ctrl + c

2017-01-24 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I encountered an issue when I did a ctrl + c as snap was installing my helloworld snap. Essentially, I am unable to resume an install, or do any other snap installs. Is there any known way to resolve this should I encounter it again in future? This occured on Debian. I had to do an uninstall +

Re: Snap install issues upon hard kill with Ctrl + c

2017-01-25 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
[>] 3.04% 4.73 MB/s 19serror: cannot perform the following tasks: - Download snap "mongo33" (2) from channel "stable" (net/http: request canceled) Cheers, Pawel On 25.01.2017 01:12, Kyle Fazzari wrote: > > On 01/24/2017

Re: Relationship between snaps and containers, if any

2017-01-25 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
Thanks Mark, your explanation is clear. But I am also thinking along similar lines to Gustavo's suggestion of running a snap multiple times, and wondering if that is the same as having multiple docker processes. -- Luther On Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:13 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

Creating a snap using make or autotools

2017-01-25 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
This probably isn't the right place to ask, but I thought I should ask in case it does matter in the context of snapping: when creating a snap of say, a hello world program in C[1], should I use the make or autotools plugin? Is one better than the other when it comes to snap creation? A quick v

Issues installing snap

2017-01-26 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I have successfully created a snap using snapcraft. However, I encountered issues when trying to install the snap. The device is a Beaglebone black with a shield containing a temperature sensor. The program that has been snapped returns the temperature, and works correctly outside of the snap. W

Re: Issues installing snap

2017-01-26 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
On Thursday, January 26, 2017 4:16 PM, Luther Goh Lu Feng wrote: I have successfully created a snap using snapcraft. However, I encountered issues when trying to install the snap. The device is a Beaglebone black with a shield containing a temperature sensor. The program that has been

Re: Using docker for clean builds of classic snaps

2017-02-01 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I am new to Docker too but these few steps got me going If you are running on armhf, you may try using this https://hub.docker.com/r/elfgoh/armhf-ubuntu-snapcraft/ $ docker run -it -v $(pwd):/usr/me/ spdigital/armhf-ubuntu-snapcraft /bin/bash # Above gets you a shell in your docker container,

Re: can't log in on ubuntu core console via sso...

2016-12-13 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I am assuming console means the login prompt like this: == Ubuntu Core 16 on 192.168.0.10 (ttyO0) localhost login: == I do feel that the current secure default works the best. Those who need to set a local password will find a way to do it since it is their requirement

Re: can't log in on ubuntu core console via sso...

2016-12-13 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I believe SSO account is simply to host your ssh keys that can be used to login to the device. Perhaps better documentation will provide improved clarity. -- Luther On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 8:36 AM, Dan Kegel wrote: This is with a very freshly downloaded image, 329125916 Dec 13 12:04 u

Ubuntu core on BBB

2016-12-15 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I would like to know if there is a roadmap for official support of BBB for Ubuntu Core. Currently, I am running relying on the image made by Oliver http://people.canonical.com/~ogra/snappy/all-snaps/stable/current/ I also see a gadeget snap for Beagleblack[1]. But am unsure how to use it to cre

man: command not found

2016-12-15 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I was surprised that man wasn't present. Is this intended, and if so, what is the rationale. Thanks. -- Luther -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft

Deploying private snap store

2016-12-15 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I am looking for software to roll out my own snap store. I am under the impression that these are the 2 to look at: - https://github.com/noise/snapstore/ - https://github.com/snapcore/snapweb Can I confirm please? Any others I missed and which is better? Thanks. -- Luther -- Snapcraft mailin

Re: Ubuntu core on BBB

2016-12-16 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
Thanks for the clarification. My beaglebone black is from element14. There seems to be beagleblack gadget snap listed[1][2], which I can also find in the output $ snap info beagleblack --verbose The listed publisher is mvo. May I know how I can get the contact with the publisher? I have conta

Re: Ubuntu core on BBB

2016-12-16 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
4 or beagleboard - get BBB to become an official reference platform produced by the snappy team ? - or roll their own build of Ubuntu Core? Thanks for the clarifications. -- Luther On Friday, December 16, 2016 9:17 PM, Jamie Bennett wrote: Hi Luther, On 16 Dec 2016, at 08:19, Luther Goh

Re: Ubuntu core on BBB

2016-12-16 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
Wow thanks for the clarifications and the offer to help, Oliver! Sounds awesome! Maybe I will try to build a BBB gadeget this weekend. Do you have some build scripts / docs I can refer to please? -- Luther On Friday, December 16, 2016 10:47 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Freitag, den 16.

Dashboard service to view deployed snaps/versions on fleet of devices running Ubuntu Core

2016-12-21 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I am interested to know if there are any online management dashboards for Ubuntu Core device management. Thanks. -- Luther -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft

Source of ssh key for first login

2016-12-21 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
During setup, console-conf will download the SSH key registered with your Store account, The ssh key is used for first login. Is there a way to configure Ubuntu Core such that the source of the ssh key can be from elsewhere? eg for cases whereby the device cant go online and can only access a p

Re: Dashboard service to view deployed snaps/versions on fleet of devices running Ubuntu Core

2016-12-21 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
installed apps >and also you can install some new apps there. > > >Best regards, >XiaoGuo > > >On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Luther Goh Lu Feng wrote: > >I am interested to know if there are any online management dashboards for >Ubuntu Core device management. T

Image based upgrades

2016-12-22 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I read with interest on image based upgrades[1]. May I ask if some of those concepts are already implemented or planned for in Ubuntu core? I would like to know what is the current plans and thinking with regards to this. Thanks. -- Luther [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ImageBasedUpgrades --

Building snap from binaries

2016-12-23 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
If I am building a snap, and for some reason, I wish to not snap it from source, but from a compiled binary, is it allowed? Thanks. -- Luther -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft

Thinking of installing snap on Debian due to scarcity of snap packages for armhf

2017-01-03 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I did a filter of armhf packages for Ubuntu Core 16 snap packages, and found there to be less than 120. I did a search for nginx based on the mentioned filter and did not find any results. The impression left upon me is that there is a clear scarcity of snap packages right now, at least in the U

Interface management in the context of snap in a classical Debian install

2017-01-03 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I am considering the scenario where snap is installed in a classical Debian install. I intend to package my golang web service in a snap. The web service may have some dependencies that are present in the debian repository, but not available as a snap. Examples could be a database like influxdb,

Package naming clashes

2017-01-03 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
I am sure that there is precedence and guidelines in place, but I couldn't to find the search result. Say someone in the community builds a snap for nginx, and later doesnt keep the snap up to date. Then another person builds a more updated nginx snap. How are the package names chosen so that

Re: Thinking of installing snap on Debian due to scarcity of snap packages for armhf

2017-01-03 Thread Luther Goh Lu Feng
On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 12:08 AM, Leo Arias wrote: > That sounds like a good solution. If debian works for you, we are working to release there every new version of snapd and to make sure that all the snaps work without a problem. If you install a classic debian or ubuntu armhf, you c