Re: HOWTO: How to snap timg (text image viewer)

2017-03-01 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 21:11 +1000, Michi Henning wrote: > > > > > > That's not true.  When a command or daemon in a strict mode snap gets > > executed, it runs in a different mount namespace where the file system > > root is the contents of the "core" snap.  You can verify this by > > executing t

Re: HOWTO: How to snap timg (text image viewer)

2017-03-01 Thread Michi Henning
> > That's not true. When a command or daemon in a strict mode snap gets > executed, it runs in a different mount namespace where the file system > root is the contents of the "core" snap. You can verify this by > executing the following: > >snap run --shell command_name > > .. and use tha

Re: HOWTO: How to snap timg (text image viewer)

2017-03-01 Thread James Henstridge
On 1 March 2017 at 07:13, Michi Henning wrote: > >> Upon further thinking, I believe that I did not have to use a fresh >> LXD container, because the "strict" confinement would preclude anyway >> the snap from using any of my desktop's existing system libraries. >> Isn't that indeed the case? > >

Re: HOWTO: How to snap timg (text image viewer)

2017-02-28 Thread Michi Henning
> Upon further thinking, I believe that I did not have to use a fresh > LXD container, because the "strict" confinement would preclude anyway > the snap from using any of my desktop's existing system libraries. > Isn't that indeed the case? I don’ think so. System libraries are visible even with

HOWTO: How to snap timg (text image viewer)

2017-02-28 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Hi All, Here is a tutorial on how to snap "timg", an image viewer for your terminal emulator (!?!), https://blog.simos.info/how-to-create-a-snap-for-timg-with-snapcraft-on-ubuntu/ It is another introductory tutorial that 1. describes an interesting utility (image view for text) 2. deals with a re