docs: where the snap's libraries come from until distro packaging catches up

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Valentin Haudiquet committed 2026-10-28 00:18:58 +01:00
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@@ -281,6 +281,21 @@ roughly 6 MB combined they cost less than any qemu-system package, and
the kernel ships inside libkrunfw, so there is nothing else to fetch or
stage.
Where the libraries come from, as of now: no Ubuntu release publishes
a `libkrun.so.1` package at all, and libkrunfw5 exists only in the
current development series' universe, not in any LTS the snap bases
ship from. Debian sid has both (source package `libkrun`), so the gap
is sync lag and it should close by the next LTS. Until then the snap
carries both halves itself: a part that builds libkrun from source
(the recipe is small: rust, clang for the C shim, `make build-release`
with the net feature for TSI) and stages `libkrun.so.1`; and a part
that fetches the `libkrunfw5` .deb from the Ubuntu pool and unpacks it
into the staging tree. snapcraft puts staged libraries on
`LD_LIBRARY_PATH` at runtime, which is exactly the resolution path the
`dlopen` in krun.rs takes; there is no ldconfig and no host dependency.
When an LTS base archive ships both packages, both parts shrink to
`stage-packages` entries and the from-source build is deleted.
The first milestone is the spike snap, before any porting: a minimal
libkrun binary behind strict confinement running a VM. T1 is the gate
that proves the shape under real AppArmor and seccomp, and everything