[pkg] build snap in docker/xenial

the docker image provider bv snapcore/snapcraft is based on xenial, and
we need a special tag for the golang gtk3 libraries to be able to build
here.

-Closes: #9315

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/snap/README.rst b/snap/README.rst
index ed737e20..bf0351df 100644
--- a/snap/README.rst
+++ b/snap/README.rst
@@ -1,50 +1,88 @@
 RiseupVPN
 ---------
 
-This is the Snap package for RiseupVPN.
+This is the Snap package for RiseupVPN. RiseupVPN is a specialized build of
+bitmask, that lacks client authentication and is preconfigured to use a single
+provider (riseup.net).
 
 In the future, this snap very likely will be maintained in its own repo, and
-here we might maintain a snap package for the Bitmask client.
+here we will maintain a snap package for the generic Bitmask client.
 
 At the moment, RiseupVPN has two main components:
 
 - A headless build of bitmask-vpn. This lives in the bitmask-dev repo, it's written
-  in python twisted, and it uses an entrypoint called "anonvpn". This
+  in twisted + python, and it uses an entrypoint called "anonvpn". This
   entrypoint launches the bitmaskd backend, and tries to launch the
   bitmask-systray too.
 
 - A minimalistic systray, written in golang. This lives in the bitmask-systray repo.
 
 
+Building
+---------
+
+First of all, make sure that the version in the snapcraft.yaml file matches what we're building.
+We're following the convention of adding +git to any build that comes after a tag.
+
+Launchpad does up 4 daily builds if code is modified in bitmask-dev repo. We're
+building for amd64, i386 and arm8.
+If you need to force a build, trigger it by editing the version string in the
+snapcraft.yaml file.
+
+For local builds, you can use 'make snap_in_docker'. This builds in a docker
+container (provided by snapcraft/snapcore). At this moment, this image is based
+in xenial - therefore, a special tag is needed for the gtk3 libs in go.
+
+
 Releasing
 ---------
-From the snap dashboard, you can see the revisions that are built. Up to now,
-the revisions are not automatically released (this might change soon).
 
-To publish them, click on "release" from the dashboard, and assign a channel to them.
+From the snap dashboard, you can see the revisions that are built.
+By default, we have riseupvpn-builds configured to upload builds to beta and
+edge channels. If you are going to be pushing to edge manually regularly,
+please configure the automated builds to push just to beta for some time and
+push your builds to edge channel.
 
-By convention, if you release to a channel, please release the revision to all the lower channels too.
-(For example, if you release a particular revision to "candidate", release it
-also to "beta" and "edge"). 
+To publish a snap, click on "release" from the dashboard, and assign a channel to them.
 
-Do note that the builds for different architectures do have different revision
-numbers, so when releasing you have to repeat the steps for each platform that we're building for.
+By convention, if you release to a channel, please release the revision to all
+the lower channels too.  (For example, if you release a particular revision to
+"candidate", release it also to "beta" and "edge"). 
+
+Do note that the automated builds for different architectures do have different revision
+numbers, so when releasing you have to repeat the steps for each platform that
+we're building for.
 
 From the command line:
 
   snapcraft login
   snapcraft status riseup-vpn
 
+  # if we've built a release manually, we have to push it first. it gives us a
+  # revision number that we use in the next step.
+
+  snapcraft push riseup-vpn_0.10.6+git_amd64.snap 
+  Preparing to push '/home/kali/leap/bitmask-dev/riseup-vpn_0.10.6+git_amd64.snap' to the store.
+  Found cached source snap /home/kali/.cache/snapcraft/projects/riseup-vpn/snap_hashes/amd64/b5e9d106c823e3c83fce1ef81ad95d68c33fcada859eeb98233fc766863d39205c192fe5ee53def71c43886e40d3ab5b.
+  Generating xdelta3 delta for riseup-vpn_0.10.6+git_amd64.snap.
+  Pushing delta /home/kali/leap/bitmask-dev/riseup-vpn_0.10.6+git_amd64.snap.xdelta3.
+  Pushing riseup-vpn_0.10.6+git_amd64.snap.xdelta3 [=================================================] 100%
+  Processing...|                                                                                                                                                                 
+  Ready to release!
+  Revision 20 of 'riseup-vpn' created.
+
+  # otherwise I assume that you're just trying to release something
+  # that was already built and automatically uploaded.
+
   # let's publish amd64 to candidate channel and the channels below
-  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 15 candidate
-  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 15 beta
-  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 15 edge
+  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 20 candidate
+  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 20 beta
+  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 20 edge
 
   # and now the i386 build
-  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 14 candidate
-  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 14 beta
-  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 14 edge
-
+  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 19 candidate
+  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 19 beta
+  snapcraft release riseupv-vpn 19 edge
 
 
 Testing