Terse error message when package cannot be found

Bug #1568131 reported by Evan
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Snapcraft
Fix Released
Medium
Sergio Schvezov
snapcraft (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Xenial
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Yakkety
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I typo'ed the nonexistent libcap instead of libcap2 in stage-packages. The resulting error message (snapcraft 2.7) wasn't helpful:

ev@elsa:~/branches/whoopsie/snappy$ snapcraft
Preparing to pull whoopsie
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
libcap

[Impact]

 * There is no error when the package doesn't exist.

 * What snapcraft does is confusing and leads to wasted time trying to understand what was wrong.

[Test Case]

 * Create an snapcraft.yaml with an unexisting stage-package.
 * Run snapcraft.
 * Verify that the error is clear.

[Regression Potential]

 * Existing stage packages could be affected. Run snapcraft with an existing package to confirm it still works.

Evan (ev)
description: updated
Changed in snapcraft:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)
milestone: none → 2.10
Revision history for this message
Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens) wrote :
Changed in snapcraft:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in snapcraft:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Leo Arias (elopio)
description: updated
Changed in snapcraft (Ubuntu Xenial):
milestone: none → xenial-updates
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package snapcraft - 2.10+16.10

---------------
snapcraft (2.10+16.10) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Martin Wimpress ]
  * Correct autotools tests to use configflags (#521)

  [ Leo Arias ]
  * Run the integration tests against a local fake server when the user
    password is not in the environment. (#511) (LP: #1585023)
  * Move the login and logout methods to a client. (#518) (LP: #1586504)
  * Improve the config handling. (#519) (LP: #1586511)
  * Fix the one-time password login. (#529) (LP: #1586832)
  * Moved the download to the store client. (#530) (LP: #1586836)
  * Moved the upload to the store client. (#531) (LP: #1586836)
  * Updated the documentation about the icon. (#542) (LP: #1578231)
  * Improve the error message when a part binary is not found. (#541)
    (LP: #1582367)
  * Reenable the ROS demo for autopackage testing. (#520) (LP: #1588098)
  * Add macaroon support to login, upload and download. (#532) (LP: #1586910)
  * Set the no_proxy environment variable to access the local fake servers.
    (#546) (LP: #1588631)

  [ Stephen Stewart ]
  * nodejs plugin: Support configurable node version (#509) (LP: #1586104)

  [ Kyle Fazzari ]
  * Use correct cross-build packages for ppc64le. (#539) (LP: #1570944)

  [ Sergio Schvezov ]
  * Support zip files as source (#523) (LP: #1577062)
  * A nicer error message for incorrect stage-packages (#524) (LP: #1568131)
  * Support the assumes keyword (#525) (LP: #1586429)
  * Improve the template for snapcraft init (#528) (LP: #1575581)
  * Filter out *.snap from sourcedir (#535) (LP: #1575628)
  * Support setting a gopath for a go project from vcs (#538) (LP: #1583426)
  * Add a ticker for snapping (#540) (LP: #1582955)
  * Rename strip to prime (#543) (LP: #1582515)

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * Wrap plugin list output content (#534) (LP: #1587057)
  * Add snapcraft examples to scaffold getting started tour (#513)
    (LP: #1586137)

  [ Joe Talbott ]
  * Add support for parsing the parts wiki (#545) (LP: #1587583)

 -- Sergio Schvezov <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Jun 2016 13:37:58 -0300

Changed in snapcraft (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Chris J Arges (arges) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Evan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted snapcraft into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapcraft/2.10 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in snapcraft (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Changed in snapcraft:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Leo Arias (elopio) wrote :

Tested in an up-to-date xenial system:
- Enabled the proposed archive
- Updated snapcraft to 2.10
- Made a yaml with an unexisting stage package.
- Run snapcraft
- I got an error message saying: no such package.

I'm marking the verification as done.

Thanks Chris!

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package snapcraft - 2.10.1

---------------
snapcraft (2.10.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Backwards compatible clean with strip (#556) (LP: #1590256)

 -- Sergio Schvezov <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Jun 2016 16:32:27 -0300

Changed in snapcraft (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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