tailscale-dev/vscode-tailscale

Support Flatpak installations

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shayne commented

To support Flatpak we'll need to run commands via flatpak-spawn --host <command>.

For detection, the env variables container=flatpak and FLATPAK_ID=com.visualstudio.code are set.

I tested flatpak-spawn --host pkexec tailscale status, and it provided the visual password prompt and the command worked as expected.

marwan-at-work commented

After some digging, there is a larger issue: /var/run in flatpak is not the same as the host even though --filesystem=host. Tailscaled runs in /var/run/tailscale which is why tsrelay LocalClient can't find the unix socket

marwan-at-work commented

Update:

  1. If we run flatpak override --user --filesystem=/var/run/tailscale <vscode>, flatpak ends up unable to run vscode in the first place due to this error: flatpak/flatpak#3477 (comment) (comment is the solution to undo it).
  2. Given the error above, since /var/run is a symlink to /run, then mounting /run/tailscale actually made things work (along with the above suggested changes to run flatpak-spawn).
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