gentoo-snappy

An unofficial Gentoo Overlay that enables installation of Canonical's "Snappy" backbone.

Add the Overlay

Gentoo's currently preferred Overlay system is through using a git sync. What follows are abbreviated instructions assuming that you already have the dev-vcs/git and app-portage/layman packages installed.

Add the overlay:

# layman -o https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gentoomaniac/gentoo-snappy/master/gentoo-snappy.xml -f -a gentoo-snappy

Sync overlay:

# layman -S

Packages

`app-emulation/snapd`

Based off of Docker being available within this portage category, I have placed snapd (the guts of snappy) here as well. Installation of this package will draw in sys-apps/snap-confine as a dependency.

`sys-apps/snap-confine`

Provides sandbox type isolation of individual snap packages. This is a dependency of snapd proper.

Installation

# emerge -av app-emulation/snapd

Post-installation

# systemctl enable --now snapd.service