I pointed grant at a folder, a mounted squashfs file, distributed from an app store (specifically the alacrity desktop terminal software package from the snap store). Partway through the license check, it fails with:
[0090] ERROR unable to classify license: unable to read "/snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6": read /snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6: is a directory
/snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6 is actually just a symlink to a directory.
alan@ziggy:~$ ls -ld /snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 16 2023 /snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6 -> libtinfo6
alan@ziggy:~$ ls -ld /snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libtinfo6
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 70 Feb 21 17:02 /snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libtinfo6
alan@ziggy:~$ ls -l /snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libtinfo6
total 10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2334 May 16 2023 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4670 Jan 16 2022 copyright
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2383 Jan 16 2022 FAQ
Steps to reproduce:
On a system which supports snap (such as Ubuntu), install alacritty
sudo snap install alacritty
(it's a classic (unconfined) snap, so it will need --classic passed on the above command)
Run grant against the installed application
grant check /snap/alacritty/current/
Expected results
I'd expect grant to follow the symlink.
Actual results
An error is displayed:
[0090] ERROR unable to classify license: unable to read "/snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6": read /snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6: is a directory
:wave:
I pointed
grant
at a folder, a mounted squashfs file, distributed from an app store (specifically the alacrity desktop terminal software package from the snap store). Partway through the license check, it fails with:[0090] ERROR unable to classify license: unable to read "/snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6": read /snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6: is a directory
/snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6
is actually just a symlink to a directory.Steps to reproduce:
sudo snap install alacritty
(it's a classic (unconfined) snap, so it will need
--classic
passed on the above command)grant
against the installed applicationgrant check /snap/alacritty/current/
Expected results
I'd expect
grant
to follow the symlink.Actual results
An error is displayed:
[0090] ERROR unable to classify license: unable to read "/snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6": read /snap/alacritty/current/usr/share/doc/libncursesw6: is a directory