docs: "snapcraft pack" did not work

[markylaing]

Please describe the question or issue you're facing with "Craft a snap - Snapcraft 8.13.2 documentation".

Running the tutorial in a fresh LXD ubuntu:24.04 VM got me:

root@v1:~/ukuzama-pyfiglet# snapcraft pack
Bad snapcraft.yaml content:
- field 'confinement' required in top-level configuration

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Reported from: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/snapcraft/stable/tutorials/craft-a-snap/

[lengau]

It looks like you may have replaced the top two stanzas rather than just the first one. The output from snapcraft init includes this second stanza that contains the confinement field:

grade: devel # must be 'stable' to release into candidate/stable channels
confinement: devmode # use 'strict' once you have the right plugs and slots

Leaving this open for our technical authors to determine whether they can improve the doc to make that clearer.

[markylaing]

Ah yes I've just tried again and that is my mistake.

I often find what helps is a "this is what your should look like before you run <command X>"

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Thank you for reporting your feedback to us!

The internal ticket has been created: https://warthogs.atlassian.net/browse/SNAPCRAFT-1260.

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[medubelko]

@markylaing Thanks for reporting this! We'll take another look at the flow of the tutorial and try and steer people away from making this mistake.