python based package created using snapcraft fails review checks due to external symlink

[Ricardo Kirkner]

When creating a snap package based on python2, the package is successfully built, but upon uploading it to the store, the review checks fail with

package contains external symlinks: /tmp/clickreview-kb8ua64p/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages lint_external_symlinks

Attached are the files necessary to reproduce the build

[Ricardo Kirkner (ricardokirkner)]

As suggested by Sergio, adding the following to the snapcraft.yaml file produces a package that passes the review checks

parts:
  flexget:
    ...
    snap:
      - -usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
      - -usr/lib/python2.7/sitecustomize.py

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Moved to https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/issues/49

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

With curdir /tmp/tmp.o6gXji4fP4

lrwxrwxrwx 3 sergiusens sergiusens 39 nov 26 13:19 snap/usr/lib/python2.7/sitecustomize.py -> ../../../etc/python2.7/sitecustomize.py
lrwxrwxrwx 3 sergiusens sergiusens 73 nov 26 13:20 snap/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages -> /tmp/tmp.o6gXji4fP4/parts/flexge
t/install/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

[Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa)]

Fix here: https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/pull/169