incorrect output of juju export-bundle for local charms

[Leon]

I have two local charms that I export to a bundle:

    juju deploy ./alertmanager-k8s.charm --resource alertmanager-image=ubuntu/prometheus-alertmanager
    juju deploy ./karma-k8s.charm --resource karma-image=ghcr.io/prymitive/karma:v0.87
    juju relate karma-k8s alertmanager-k8s
    juju export-bundle --filename ~/bundle.yaml

The output looks incorrect (specifically the path):

bundle: kubernetes
applications:
  alertmanager-k8s:
    charm: local:focal/alertmanager-k8s-6
    scale: 1
  karma-k8s:
    charm: local:focal/karma-k8s-1
    scale: 1
relations:
- - karma-k8s:dashboard
  - alertmanager-k8s:karma-dashboard

Deploying this (after juju remove-application), gives the following error:

juju deploy ~/bundle.yaml
Executing changes:
- upload charm alertmanager-k8s from local for series focal with architecture=amd64
ERROR cannot deploy bundle: cannot deploy local charm at "/home/tux/alertmanager-k8s": file does not exist

[Simon Richardson (simonrichardson)]

Unfortunately, we don't actually store the local directory anywhere once the charm has been deployed. The charm URL ends up becoming the charm name + a revision. The reason we don't save the charm file path as a charm URL to the directory structure is that the bundle doesn't become useable for others. The same directory structure for user A isn't the same as user B, even worse with absolute filepaths.

Charmhub and the now deprecated charmstore is the preferred way to get repeatable deployments.

Having said all of this, there is a bug in this and that is the fact that the series exported with the charm path. That shouldn't be the case and I'll fix that accordingly.

[Simon Richardson (simonrichardson)]

Juju PR: https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/13174

[Leon (sed-i)]

Thanks.
So at the moment local charms are not supported by bundles?

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

export-bundle does not remember the path that was used to deploy, but
otherwise local bundles are perfectly supported

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:10 PM Leon <email address hidden> wrote:

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> So at the moment local charms are not supported by bundles?
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