request: snap disable and enable (vs remove or install)

[Victor Mayoral]

Hi everyone,

It'll be great if a snap (mainly its services), once installed could be enabled and/or disabled . A simple scenario where this would be useful:

"Imagine i've got two facial recognition algorithms abstracted as snaps the first one's size is 10 MB and the second one is 15 MB. I'd like to have both installed in my device and enable one or the other depending on the scenario (without access to the cloud) thereby i need them both installed but one disabled."

Any chance this gets into snappy at some point?
Many thanks,

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Yes, disabling them is an easy +1 :)

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

Victor, you can already disable the services from the command line via `snappy service disable mypackage`.

I've added a trello card to add enable/disable at the package level to the REST API, at https://trello.com/c/12Zusor4/262-add-enable-disable-actions-at-the-package-level

I think between these two things you should be unblocked, and we can add enable/disable to snappy command when we move it to the rest API; let me know if not.

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

I'm using activate/deactivate instead of enable/disable for consistency with 'snappy set $pkg active=$version', and and to make it slightly less confusing with enable/disable, that is for services.