Base bare
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Current evaluation
Merged support for the bare Snap base in commit 7aa576658 ("project: support for base bare"), enabling projects to use base: bare.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: PR #2728 was approved and merged into snapcraft. Commit 7aa576658 added support for the bare base.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
- [ ] Have you followed the [guidelines for contributing](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)?
- [ ] Have you signed the [CLA](http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/contributors/)?
- [ ] Have you successfully run `./runtests.sh static`?
- [ ] Have you successfully run `./runtests.sh tests/unit`?
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged support for the bare Snap base in commit 7aa576658 ("project: support for base bare"), enabling projects to use base: bare. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged support for the bare Snap base in commit 7aa576658, including project validation and related tests. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged support for the bare Snap base in commit 7aa576658 ("project: support for base bare"). | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged after single reviewer approval. Changes touched seven files with 124 additions and 38 deletions. An unrelated rust-toolchain test failure was acknowledged and deferred to a separate pull request. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged base bare changes by maintainer sergiusens. An unrelated rust-toolchain test failure was noted and will be fixed separately. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #36 project: support build-base and allow 'bare' bases | rockcraft | merged | Merged in #36 as commit 5a27aca4, adding build-base, bare bases, and Ubuntu 22.04 support; follow-up commit d1a5f04c corrected a bare-base rebuild bug. | |
| #1819290 Support for "base: core" | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Implemented by merged snapcore/snapcraft#2499 (commit e1cc2b91c), adding 'base: core' support in snapcraft.yaml and stripping it from generated snap.yaml; Launchpad base config updated by cjwatson. | |
| #4972 Cannot create a snap with base:bare in destructive mode | snapcraft | open | Snapcraft 8.3.2 mishandled bare-base projects without build-base, producing architecture/platform errors; current models require build-base and fail early during validation. |