Bug 392769

Summary:	Installation of classic Snaps stops immediately
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	Marcus Harrison <marcus>
Component:	Snap Backend	Assignee:	Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	herissonsilvahs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Marcus Harrison 2018-04-05 18:43:02 UTC

Discover is able to install Snaps using current confinement but not Snaps using classic confinement. The snaps tested were OBS Studio (current) and Skype (classic/legacy).

On the command line, `snap` installs `obs-studio` immediately, while with the `skype` snap it halts to print a warning message about legacy confinement before forcing the user to type the command again with the `--classic` flag.

I believe the correct behaviour for Discover should be somewhere between showing a dialogue box that warns the user of the lack of sandboxing with classic snaps, and not showing classic snaps at all.

Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2018-04-06 18:22:31 UTC

Git commit fa278f29ff9a5e6fea814e18574de3c271dba7b8 by Aleix Pol.
Committed on 06/04/2018 at 18:21.
Pushed by apol into branch 'master'.

Snap: make it possible to install "Classic" apps

Classic, which is an euphemism for unsafe, applications were not
supported so far. Now it will ask the user for confirmation to install.

M  +2    -2    libdiscover/backends/SnapBackend/SnapBackend.cpp
M  +32   -9    libdiscover/backends/SnapBackend/SnapTransaction.cpp
M  +6    -2    libdiscover/backends/SnapBackend/SnapTransaction.h

https://commits.kde.org/discover/fa278f29ff9a5e6fea814e18574de3c271dba7b8

Comment 2 Aleix Pol 2018-04-06 18:23:36 UTC

I could not reproduce the obs-studio issue. It installs fine here. If you could investigate a bit further I'd appreciate it very much.

WRT skype, now it allows to install it if the user accepts the lack of confinement.

Comment 3 Marcus Harrison 2018-04-06 18:38:05 UTC

Sorry, I meant to say that obs-studio installs fine in Discover, and that this only affects classic snaps.

I'll test this as soon as I can (I'll try building Discover and, failing that, I'll let you know as soon as a binary version is available for KDE Neon).

Thanks.

Comment 4 Aleix Pol 2018-04-07 00:09:38 UTC

Ah okay, then it's fixed in master (i.e. 5.13). :)

Comment 5 Patrick Silva 2018-04-29 15:50:41 UTC

*** Bug 393641 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***