Fetching snapcraft.yaml from GitHub doesn't honour symlinks

[Colin Watson]

build.snapcraft.io is currently failing to request snap builds from https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd. This is because snap/snapcraft.yaml is a symlink, and so:

  $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hughsie/fwupd/HEAD/snap/snapcraft.yaml
  ../contrib/snap/snapcraft-stable.yaml

We may need to use the contents API (https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#get-contents) instead. I'd been avoiding this in order to avoid having to worry about rate-limiting, but I don't see another way.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Thanks for debugging and confirming. At least for now I'll swap that file to be a real file rather than symlink to get this working again.

When this is sorted I would like to go back to symlink though.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

We could just see if it looks like a path and resolve it ourselves.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Bug 1832212 is slightly related, although not a dependency.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r18993 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/18993>.