use new multipass snapcraft remote
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Current evaluation
Snapcraft switched Multipass builds to the new snapcraft: remote via merged PR snapcore/snapcraft#2293 (commit 66060e839).
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: Launchpad issue #1794361 was fixed by PR snapcore/snapcraft#2293, which was merged as commit 66060e839.
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Issue body
snapcraft:core16 and snapcraft:core18 are the new images offered by the new multipass remote "snapcraft" which translate to actual base names.
For backwards compatibility we should translate no base as using core16
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Snapcraft switched Multipass builds to the new snapcraft: remote via merged PR snapcore/snapcraft#2293 (commit 66060e839). | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Fixed by merged PR #2293, which switched Multipass builds to the new snapcraft: remote. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Fixed by canonical/snapcraft#2293 (commit 66060e839), updating build providers to use the new snapcraft: remote for Multipass. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without implementation. The request to update multipass remote to snapcraft:core16 and core18 images, with backwards compatibility mapping, was abandoned or superseded by upstream changes. No discussion occurred. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution or comments. The request to configure the new multipass snapcraft remote and default missing bases to core16 was likely abandoned or superseded. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without implementation. The proposal to use the new multipass snapcraft remote and default to core16 for backwards compatibility was abandoned or superseded by later multipass updates. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Abandoned. The request to configure the multipass snapcraft remote for core16/core18 images and backwards compatibility was closed without implementation. |
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Related work
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Likely Fixed By:
snapcore/snapcraft#2293
(confidence 100%)
Merged PR switched the Multipass provider to the new snapcraft: remote and closed the issue.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #2293 build providers: use the new snapcraft: remote for multipass | snapcraft | merged | Merged PR #2293 as commit 66060e839, switching Multipass builds to the snapcraft: remote and delegating unsupported-base errors to Multipass. | |
| #5145 snapcraft fails to launch multipass instance when multipass isn't pre-installed | snapcraft | open | Snapcraft emits cryptic 'Remote "snapcraft" is unknown or unreachable / exit code 2' when Multipass can't launch the build instance; maintainer traced it to image-server unavailability or non-amd64 hosts, fix tracked in craft-providers#211 | |
| #1791821 multipass should use snapcraft defined environments | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Multipass now launches Snapcraft-defined build images; fixed by canonical/snapcraft#2258 (commit 5ffefbf96), including a Darwin launch workaround. | |
| #2258 build providers: snapcraft images for multipass | snapcraft | merged | Merged PR #2258 as commit 5ffefbf96, adding Snapcraft build images for Multipass and a Darwin launch workaround for LP #1791821. | |
| #4106 Error 2 on snapcraft on linux with multipass: | snapcraft | closed | Multipass's Snapcraft image remote recovered; CI and the reporter succeeded again, and the reporter closed the report as solved without a Snapcraft code change. | |
| #1859427 'multipass' does not exist or is not available on the desired channel 'latest/beta' | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Fixed by merged PR snapcore/snapcraft#2869 (commit eb9bd8fbf), changing automatic Multipass installation from latest/beta to stable. | |
| #1792614 use multipass if set in the environment | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed as fixed: PR snapcore/snapcraft#2275 (commit 04f8896d9) made SNAPCRAFT_BUILD_ENVIRONMENT/multipass take precedence over the base-derived provider choice. | |
| #1996511 snapcraft try with multipass provider crashes | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Snapcraft try with Multipass and core22 was fixed by snapcore/snapcraft#3981 (commit 2691262b8) and shipped in Snapcraft 7.3. | |
| #2869 build providers: use multipass from stable | snapcraft | merged | Merged in canonical/snapcraft#2869 (commit eb9bd8fbf), switching build providers to install Multipass 1.0 from the stable channel. | |
| #1806083 snapcraft fails to locate multipass (inside a multipass session) | snapcraft (launchpad) | open | Snapcraft 3.0.1 falsely reported Multipass missing inside a Multipass guest; Darwin-only detection in e9ae8d29f addressed the old path, but the Launchpad record remains open. |