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What is snap and why should we dedicate ongoing maintenance effort to support it? |
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It's recent cross-distro packaging format, more info is here: http://snapcraft.io/ It's very simple and maintenance burden is minimal. Prometheus snap packages would allow users to easily install and keep it up to date. |
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Per previous discussion, closing this. |
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jacekn commentedAug 16, 2016
Latest Ubuntu LTS (16.04) ships with prometheus version 0.16.2 which is over 6 months old. There is no native way to get newer version.
It would be good to have prometheus available in snap format which is better suited for fast moving projects.
I did some work on it and snap builds and runs fine: https://github.com/jacekn/prometheus/tree/snap
but it would need to be integrated with promu