Add the packaging metadata to build the gobot snap

[come-maiz]

No description provided.

[coveralls]

Coverage increased (+0.04%) to 70.315% when pulling 2658ac1 on elopio:snapcraft into e0ccab8 on hybridgroup:dev.

[come-maiz]

Today I'm back at work, and I love everything I learned with gobot and my bbb over the holidays. I think it will be an awesome component of our snappy systems with Ubuntu Core. If you haven't heard about snaps yet, you can take a look at http://snapcraft.io/

As soon as we improve a little our bbb kernel snap I will be writing a few simple demos using gobot to make snaps that interact with the board. But in the mean time, I thought that it wouldn't hurt to make a snap for the gobot code generator. It's not terribly useful because you would get the binary with a go get + go build, but it might serve to expose it a little more to all the ubuntu users. And maybe you can start looking at the security, isolation, automatic updates, unstable channels and the store, which I think would be really useful for gort. A gort snap would be amazing! And making sure that it works in strict isolation would be quite fun.

So please take a look at this, and let me know it seems interesting for your projects. For us any kind of feedback would be great, to help us assign the priorities on our backlog.

To give it a try in any Ubuntu 16.04 or later:

$ sudo apt install git snapcraft
$ git clone https://github.com/elopio/gobot
$ cd gobot
$ git checkout snapcraft
$ snapcraft
$ sudo snap install *.snap --dangerous
$ gobot

[deadprogram]

This is excellent work @ElOpio I've been wanting to see this happen for a while. I'd love to help out however needed, can't wait to see your BBB snaps!

[deadprogram]

Also, can we get your assistance to add a snapcraft file to Gort? https://github.com/hybridgroup/gort :)

[come-maiz]

Thanks @deadprogram. It would be nice if you register the snap and push it once to the edge channel, to get a feel of what the store offers: https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/click-apps/register-name/
And I will be happy to assist with gort. Would you like to meet next week to talk about it?

[popey]

Is there a blocker getting gobot in the store? I'd also like to help get this in the store!

[deadprogram]

The snap I built locally used golang 1.6. I want to build using 1.7.4 at the very least. How can I do this?

[deadprogram]

In the meantime, here is https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/click-apps/6777/

[come-maiz]

Thanks a lot for the release @deadprogram!

We have an open bug for go 1.7: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/1616985
It would be nice to get your comment in there about your use case, so my other teammates take it into account when discussing about priorities.

go 1.7 is not super simple to support, because in xenial we have go 1.6. This bug made us discuss about having snapcraft parts [1] that can provide binaries to build other parts. We all loved the idea, and now that you requested it I hope we'll get to work on it soon. In the meantime, I have a solution that I can propose for gobot: https://github.com/elopio/hashicorp-snaps/blob/master/consul/parts/plugins/x-go.py#L3 I want to try to clean it up a little using the most recent features of snapcraft, so I'll send you a PR tomorrow to see if you like it.

pura vida.

[1] http://snapcraft.io/docs/build-snaps/parts

[deadprogram]

Hi @ElOpio looks like a good plan to me. I've already posted a comment on the bug tracker.