[FROG] question from a noob at networking and routing

[Quentin Young]

Do note that we offer traditional packages as well:

https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases <https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases>

> On Sep 3, 2018, at 6:43 PM, Martin Winter <mwinter at netdef.org> wrote:
> 
> On 3 Sep 2018, at 14:55, Donald Sharp wrote:
> 
> Yes, snap packages have us worried about the forced upgrade too.  We decided, thought, that for people attempting to figure out FRRouting that this would be a good way to allow people to try us out.  I know Martin was looking at this at one point and I do not remember what he came up with.
> Martin do you remember?
> 
> Yes, my thread on this topic seems to break all records on longest 
> (and still active) thread in the snap craft forum
> 
> Here is the main thread with all the discussion:
> https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for-snap-from-store <https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for-snap-from-store>
> Feel free to join the discussion…
> 
> Martin
> On 9/1/2018 6:03 PM, o1bigtenor wrote:
> 
> Greetings
> 
> I had occasion to experiment with canonical's lxd which forced me to
> use snapd. In the process of this education I found that canonical
> forced dialy upgrades/updates (not sure which is the correct term). In
> trying to tame this insistence of ET's on calling home I got to a
> solution, suggested on the snapd forum which seemed to work. The
> result was that every month (the new updating frequency) my system
> would shut itself down because I had refused to let it connect to the
> snapd and lxd mother ships.
> 
> Your FRRouting, that I have just found, looks like quite interesting
> stuff but I'm seeing where installing from snapcraft is considered an
> option. As I have had quite some pain from snapcraft/snapd I am
> curious as to why something that forced daily upgrades/updates is
> being used to install software that 'just needs to work'?
> 
> If this kind of question is considered 'not nice' I will apologize in
> advance but I still would like to understand the logic behind choosing
> this method of installation.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dee
> 
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