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Re:Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal depe... by jabbany on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:31PM (#32542382)
The thread above has mentioned a very real problem with snap running on OpenVZ. It requires either squashfs as a kernel module or FUSE+squashfuse. Many OpenVZ hosts will not provide either and docker/k8s is obviously out if you are already operating inside a container...

Like, squashfs is great and all and packaged app images are an acceptable way of delivering desktop apps... but there's so much lossage here when certbot indirectly requires both just for an install.

(I ended up going with acme.sh instead.)

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Re:Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal depe... by yakubin on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:34PM (#32542415)
I think vbezhenar was just joking.
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Re:Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal depe... by jabbany on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:44PM (#32542522)
Frankly at this point I'd happily accept it if certbot required docker or k8s over snap.

At least then I know I'll have to run it in a container (and give up then) instead of waste hours figuring out why I get a snap error message when I try to run/install certbot before finally coming to the conclusion it is impossible.

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