snap [Feature Request]

[mikeroyal]

I was wondering if you might have an interest in a snap. I would help make the snap(interactive shell) and submit a PR if there's any interest.
Crafting your first snap

[gpotter2]

Thanks for the call,

If there is a way to make snapcraft automatically fetch the latest PyPi release, then yes. (for instance, conda-forge are killers when it comes to automatization).

Otherwise, if it gives us another thing to maintain, we'll need to be sure it's worth the work (I'm not sure if the people that use Scapy would really go through snap).

I'm also not sure if we would support all platforms Snap supports out of the box, because we have quite a few platform-specific calls (especially to read the routes). It's sometimes nice to have the maintainers patch that for us.

I would help make the snap(interactive shell)

I'm not sure what this means (but I don't know Snap very well).

[mikeroyal]

hi @gpotter2, I wanted to clarify that I would make a snap for setting up the scapy shell. As for distribution support I'm mainly focusing on Debian/Ubuntu for now. Also snapcraft does use and supports PyPi https://pypi.org/project/snapcraft/.

[gpotter2]

That would be nice, thanks for the proposition 😄

We provide support for Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, (therefore Kali) OSX & Windows (and Solaris soon) in the main build.

[guedou]

It sounds like a good idea! Do you know if it is possible to give root privileges or specific capabilities to applications packaged with snap?

[mikeroyal]

Hi @guedou, snapcraft uses a setuid/setgid root program called snap-confine to setup namespace based containers for snap packages. As for your question of specific capabilities what do you need?

[guedou]

Scapy requires CAP_NET_RAW to interact with the network.

[mikeroyal]

Hi @guedou, I need to double check but I do believe the 'network-observe' plug will work with CAP_NET_RAW.

[guedou]

Close due to no activity. The request is referenced in #399.