feat: add a rock for core24 Snapcraft 8.x

.github/workflows/build-rock.yaml

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build rock
         uses: canonical/craft-actions/rockcraft-pack@main
+        with:
+          rockcraft-channel: candidate # Temporarily until 1.2.2 is in 'stable'
 
       - name: Get rock name
         id: vars

rockcraft.yaml

@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
-name: snapcraft-core22
-base: [email protected]
+name: snapcraft-core24
+base: [email protected]
+build-base: devel
 version: 8.0.4
-summary: easily create core22 snaps
+summary: easily create core24 snaps
 description: |
   Snapcraft aims to make upstream developers' lives easier and as such is not
   a single toolset, but instead is a collection of tools that enable the
   natural workflow of an upstream to be extended with a simple release step
   into Snappy.
-  This version of Snapcraft is able to build core22 snaps in destructive mode
+  This version of Snapcraft is able to build core24 snaps in destructive mode
   only.
 license: GPL-3.0
 platforms:
@@ -23,9 +24,6 @@ parts:
     python-packages:
       - wheel
       - pip
-      # Limited to < 66 because we need `pkg_resources` and because `python-apt`
-      # does not build with the latest (shouldn't this be in constraints.txt?)
-      - setuptools<66
     python-constraints:
       - constraints.txt
     python-requirements:

spread.yaml

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ environment:
   SNAPD_TESTING_TOOLS: $PROJECT_PATH/tools/external/snapd-testing-tools/tools
   PATH: /snap/bin:$PATH:$SNAPD_TESTING_TOOLS:$PROJECT_PATH/tools/spread
   # These variables are used to set the base in multi-base projects
-  SNAPCRAFT_BASE: core22
-  SNAPCRAFT_BUILD_BASE: core22
+  SNAPCRAFT_BASE: core24
+  SNAPCRAFT_BUILD_BASE: devel
 
 include:
   - tests/
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ prepare: |
 
   load_snapcraft_rock
 
+  # while core24 is unstable we need to install it explicitly
+  snap install --edge core24
+
 
 restore-each: |
   # Cleanup after each task.

tests/spread/general/craftctl/snap/snapcraft.yaml

@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ parts:
     override-pull: |
       echo -e "#!/usr/bin/env bash\necho hello" > hello.sh
       chmod +x hello.sh
-      craftctl get grade | grep devel
+      # we only set the 'version' and not the 'grade' here because projects
+      # with 'devel' build-base can only have 'devel' grade. We can update
+      # this when core24 is stable.
       craftctl set version="22"
-      craftctl set grade=stable
     override-build: |
       craftctl get version | grep 22
-      craftctl get grade | grep stable
       echo "This is the build step"
       cp hello.sh "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL"/