Migrating from snapd to snapd-git results in 'broken' snaps

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

I switched from the outdated snapd package to snapd-git, which gives me snap 2.30.

[alan@manjarovm ~]$ snap version
snap 2.30dev+171219+g5f5180e-1
snapd 2.30dev+171219+g5f5180e-1
series 16
manjaro
kernel 4.9.74-2-MANJARO
Now all my snaps show up as broken.

[alan@manjarovm ~]$ snap list
Name Version Rev Developer Notes
brave 13 brave broken
chromium 128 canonical broken
core 3748 canonical broken
firefox x2 broken
nextcloud 4371 nextcloud broken
node-red 56 dcj broken
I also note that after the switch to snapd-git, my /snap directory is not mounted.

Supposedly this was fixed (for Ubuntu 14.04) in https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4081

[Maciej Borzecki (maciek-borzecki)]

I've posted some findings in the forum topic: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/on-arch-snaps-show-broken-after-switch-from-snapd-to-snapd-git/3427

Bottom line is, snapd and snapd-git packages from Manjaro's repo do not perform a proper cleanup on removal. Manjaro carries a snapd-git package in their own repositories and it's not the same package as snapd-git from AUR. To get it fixed, we'll need to work with Manjaro to have their packages updated.

[Maciej Borzecki (maciek-borzecki)]

The files for both `snapd` and `snapd-git` packages were updated in Manjaro repositories.

https://github.com/manjaro/packages-community/commit/6ec57b998bc2866c7e7c804aec9d57b5a58a34f9