Comment 3 for bug 1670384

Thanks, John. If this is not the way to toggle devmode/jailmode, then maybe
that is a #4. The right way isn't possible or isn't more obvious.

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:23 AM, John Lenton <email address hidden>
wrote:

> To be clear, there's several things going on which need fixing:
> 1. It's letting you refresh to the same revision as you currently have,
> and having allowed it, then proceeds to try to do something other than
> saying "done!".
> 2. it's failing to do the install
> 3. having failed, it's not cleaning up after itself
>
> the last one is the bigger issue of the lot
>
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> Title:
> refresh to same revision yields broken SNAP_USER_DIR
>
> Status in Snappy:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I have a misbehaving snap. I want to test in devmode.
>
> cmiller@zippy:~$ snap list
> Name Version Rev Developer Notes
> core 16-2 1337 canonical -
> tor-middle-relay 0.2.9.10-1 156 chadmiller -
>
> cmiller@zippy:~$ sudo snap refresh tor-middle-relay --beta --devmode
> --revision=156
> error: cannot perform the following tasks:
> - Copy snap "tor-middle-relay" data (cannot copy "/home/cmiller/snap/tor-middle-relay/156"
> to "/home/cmiller/snap/tor-middle-relay/156": failed to copy all: "cp:
> cannot stat '/home/cmiller/snap/tor-middle-relay/156': No such file or
> directory" (1))
>
> cmiller@zippy:~$ ls -ld /home/cmiller/snap/tor-middle-relay/156
> ls: cannot access '/home/cmiller/snap/tor-middle-relay/156': No such
> file or directory
>
> cmiller@zippy:~$ ls -l /home/cmiller/snap/tor-middle-relay
> total 44
> drwxrwxr-x 2 cmiller cmiller 2 Jun 28 2016 148
> drwxrwxr-x 2 cmiller cmiller 2 Jun 28 2016 152
> drwxrwxr-x 2 cmiller cmiller 2 Jun 28 2016 156.old
> drwxr-xr-x 2 cmiller cmiller 2 Feb 16 16:09 common
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