On 06.02.2017 15:48, Simon Fels wrote: > On 06.02.2017 14:36, Oliver Grawert wrote: >> hi, >> >> on the core images we currently provide a ppp interface that used to be >> used for pppd access in 15.04 images and also gives access to >> /dev/tty[0-9]. >> >> with series 16 the pppd binary was dropped from the core snap and a >> pppd snap was added to the store which provides all the ppp >> functionality, but the interface persisted in the core snap. > > When was pppd dropped from the core snap? We have a dependency on it > from the modem-manager snap which is why we added the ppp interface. It > also does a few more things like ensuring that the right kernel modules > are loaded etc. > >> i recently got a question from a customer about an interface providing >> access to /dev/tty0 for certain console messages ... > > That would be more the serial-port interface where we need a slot on the > gadget/core snap for. > >> this made me wonder if we have any forward plans for renaming >> interfaces in cases like the above ... > > Please don't do this. The modem-manager snap defines a plug with this > interface so we can't easily remove or rename it. > >> i.e. it would make sense to rename the ppp interface to "console- >> access" or "tty-access" and drop the execution bits for the non- >> existing pppd binary from it... do we have any implementation plans, >> rules, policies etc for such use-cases yet ? > > Actually we're in a broken state now. When the ppp interface was > implemented the idea was that ppp remains in the core snap. Long term I > agree that there are better ways to express portions of the ppp > interface (like via serial-port) but the interface itself needs to stay > as it triggers loading of the right kernel modules needed for ppp.
I've just checked this and all pppd things are still in core. See https://paste.ubuntu.com/23941360/ regards, Simon -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
