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I'm trying to create a snapp from an app host on github (etherpad-lite).

When I launch the snapcraft stage command, snapcraft downloads all the files into the parts/etherpad-lite/src folder and then builds all that need to be built, and copies files into the stage/bin folder.

Now I need to copy some script from the source folder to the stage/bin folder.

How I can do that in snapcraft?

All the history is explained on the snap-app-devel ML : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-app-devel/2016-February/000611.html

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There is a copy plugin. So you can add a part that copies files into /bin

   <part-name>:
      plugin: copy
      source: <your source directory>
      files:
         <source path 1>: <destination path 1>
         <source path 2>: <destination path 2>

You can play around with that and check the result in the directories ./parts, ./stage and ./snap .

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Thx @abbgrade, I didn't know that we could use the copy plugin like this :) I'll try – Winael Feb 28 '16 at 22:19
    
Is it possible to copy an entire folder ? or is it just file by file ? – Winael Feb 29 '16 at 11:27
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Now that the copy plugin is deprecated how does one do this with the dump plugin? I get Additional properties are not allowed ('files' was unexpected) when I try this advice but with plugin: dump. – sarnold Aug 13 '16 at 2:00
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You can use the dump plugin to copy files:

<part-name>:
   plugin: dump
   source: .
   stage:
      - <file1>
      - <file2>
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