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FRC-Utilities / QDriverStation

Cross-platform clone of the FRC Driver Station

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Snap Packages

alex-spataru opened this issue · comments

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This is not much of an issue, it is more like a discussion channel regarding the progress of supporting snap packages.

For the moment, we are able to create and distribute snap packages, however, the generated snaps are not able to:

  • Use SDL2 properly under a "strict" confinement ("devmode" works)
  • Snapcraft security model does not allow applications to access /proc/stat, which is used by the QDriverStation to obtain CPU usage
  • We use upower to obtain battery level & status. For the moment, snapcraft does not allow us to call upower.

I have already discussed this with the snapcraft developers, and it is possible that these issues will be fixed in a future release of snapcraft. However, it may take a little while until snapcraft supports the interfaces / security models needed for the QDriverStation to work correctly.

If you are interested, you can check the snapcraft.yaml file of this project.

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Thanks! For anyone that is interested to check the PPA (which can also help us with the snaps), please navigate to: https://launchpad.net/~bearz89

The repository is maintained by @BearzRobotics, as he said, anyone is welcome to join the team.