Managed to get an infinite loop of copying under way with this snapcraft.yaml: name: etcd version: 3.0.6+master # this branch tracks upstream master summary: Distributed key-value store # 79 char long summary description: | Etcd provides a key-value store and is implemented for high availability, using the RAFT algorithm to deal with failover within the etcd cluster. Popular in the Docker community as a shared store of small but important pieces of common data in an application. confinement: devmode # use "strict" to enforce system access only via declared interfaces apps: etcd: command: bin/etcd etcdctl: command: bin/etcdctl parts: etcd: plugin: dump source: . stage: - bin/*