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Until SNAP gives me full control (and not just: you can opt-out) over updates/upgrades they're a non-starter.
by canada_dry 6y ago
Until SNAP gives me full control (and not just: you can opt-out) over updates/upgrades they're a non-starter.
- lallysingh 6y agoDoes snap not let you manually do those?
- ric2b 6y agoNo, it updates by itself, sort of like Windows 10.
- timClicks 6y agoMany snaps provide channels so that you an pin your locally installed version to a specific upstream version. That way you have full control over when you upgrade.
- kelvie 6y agoAlso it's ridiculously annoying debugging issues with them, or finding out what source code compiled into a particular snap. Even with docker hub I can find the sourcecode easily linked 99% of the time.
- galgalesh 6y agoYeah, it would be useful to have a metadata field "packaging repository" or something. Snaps built from GitHub with snapcraft.io include a manifest and the build recipe in the `meta` folder in the root of the snap. This includes all the info about the source code and allow you to reproduce it. Publishers can enable this on their own build infrastructure using an environment variable. Many snaps also link to the source repository in the "contact <publisher>" link.