snapcraft isn't context aware in displaying help text
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snapcraft |
New
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Undecided
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Callahan Kovacs | ||
Bug Description
When using snapcraft 7.x and attempting to build a core20 base snap, the options available from snapcraft --help are in general not available when building the snap. For example, --verbosity is not a valid option when using snapcraft 7 to build a core20 base snap:
dilyn@Ares:
Starting Snapcraft 7.1.4.post49+
Logging execution to '/root/
Usage: snapcraft [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Try 'snapcraft -h' for help.
Error: No such option: --verbosity Did you mean --version?
I would expect that snapcraft --help would display context-aware options -- based on the base declared in the snapcraft.yaml for the snap I am building, it should display the flags which will govern its behavior in building said snap.
| Dilyn (dilyn-corner) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in snapcraft: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Callahan Kovacs (mr-cal) |
Reconfirming that this issue is still present in both latest/stable (rev. 8931) and latest/edge (rev 9020):
dilyn@Ares:~/test -> snapcraft --verbosity=verbose
Starting Snapcraft 7.3.1.post31+
Logging execution to '/home/
Usage: snapcraft [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Try 'snapcraft -h' for help.
Error: No such option: --verbosity (Possible options: --verbose, --version)