snapd-wait

snapd-wait is a small Python3 script that waits for snap autorefresh to complete. It's primarily intended to be run on boot and is particularly useful when provisioning your system.

For example, if you use a Terraform/Packer provisioner that calls a program installed via snap, you'll get miscellaneous failures saying that program doesn't exist (because snapd is updating it).

Usage

$ snapd-wait --help
usage: snapd-wait [-h] [--delay DELAY] [--max-wait-time MAX_WAIT_TIME] [--sleep SLEEP] [--timeout TIMEOUT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --delay DELAY         Delay updates for n minutes (<=0 disables)
  --max-wait-time MAX_WAIT_TIME
                        Maximum time in minutes to wait for snapd (<=0 disables)
  --sleep SLEEP         Time in seconds to sleep between calls to snap
  --timeout TIMEOUT     Time in seconds to wait for snap to complete

What it does

• Delays the next refresh by 6 hours (snapd autorefreshes 4 times a day by default)
• Waits for all changes to finish by calling snap changes, essentially using this method, until every change is marked as Done.

References

• https://serverfault.com/questions/967674/how-to-wait-for-snapd-auto-refresh-to-complete
• https://popey.com/blog/2021/05/disabling-snap-autorefresh/

Development

Installation

Create a virtual environment, then install as follows:

pip install -e[dev]

Build/Test

make