I've used the same wrapper script configuration[1] as you're doing. If you make pgbouncer a daemon it will be run as root, so the wrapper will be able to create the config files without a problem. You should use $SNAP_DATA rather than $SNAP_USER_DATA for this.
Coming soon (in snapd 2.18 I think) you will also be able to use the 'configure' hook, which will be called on install and update of a snap. But for now the wrapper you have, plus making it a daemon, should do the trick. [1] https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/configure#L199 Michael Hall mhall...@gmail.com On 12/12/2016 02:27 PM, Ivan Lezhnjov IV wrote: > Hi, > > I’m working on pgbouncer snap package and as I’m new to snaps I wanted to ask > the community what is the current preferred way to install a program’s > configuration files that are meant to be edited by users? > > For example, pgbouncer has a couple of files: pgbouncer.ini and userlist.txt. > Both normally located under /etc/pgbouncer. > > As users need to be able to modify various settings in pgbouncer.ini it has > to be under $SNAP_USER_DATA/etc/pgbouncer/. > > I use a standalone wrapper script that initializes some filesystem paths, > creates empty log files, etc. which is all required by pgbouncer and is never > created by the program itself, where I essentially do this: > > [ -e "$CNF_DIR/pgbouncer.ini" ] || cp $SNAP/etc/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.ini > $CNF_DIR/pgbouncer.ini > > As you can see I first dump pgbouncer.ini to $SNAP/etc/pgbouncer/ and then > attempt to copy it to $CNF_DIR, which expands to > $SNAP_USER_DATA/etc/pgbouncer. > > However, this doesn’t work as $SNAP/etc/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.ini is owned by > root and when the wrapper script is run as a normal user it cannot read the > $SNAP/etc/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.ini file (permission denied). > > I might be one step close to getting this to work but I was wondering what is > the common/recommended practice to do what I’m trying to achieve here? > > Ivan > -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
