The following changes were made:

* removed usher
  * various cleanup in output
  * corrected issues with usher() in Package.pm, now using fork()/exec()
  * added snapinstall
  * made virtfs() more robust, will still attempt if fails
  * made strip a little more thoughtful in Makefile.snaplinux

SRC/snapinstall

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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Snap;
+use Data::Dumper;
+
+setup();
+
+my $conf = readconf();
+my $sources = Snap::Sources->new( $conf->{'sources'} );
+
+my $opts = {
+	repo => 'core',
+	quiet => 1
+	};
+my $corepkgs;
+my $packages;
+my $virtfs = 0;
+my $prepkgs = {};
+my $prelist = [ 'snap-base', 'bash', 'coreutils', 'glibc',
+	'libacl', 'libattr', 'libcap', 'ncurses', 'readline',
+	'tzdata', 'perl', 'initscripts' ];
+
+print "\n";
+
+if ( ! Snap->TARGET ) {
+	Snap->error( -1, 'A target must be specified with -t' );
+	}
+
+$sources->readpkgs();
+$corepkgs = $sources->search( $opts );
+
+for ( my $i = 0; $i <= $#$corepkgs; $i++ ) {
+	if ( ! $opts->{'nodeps'} ) {
+		print "Resolving dependencies for"
+			. " $corepkgs->[$i]{'name'}\n";
+
+		$corepkgs->[$i]->depends( $sources, $packages );
+		}
+	else {
+		print "Ignoring dependencies for"
+			. " $corepkgs->[$i]{'name'}\n";
+		}
+
+	push( @$packages, $corepkgs->[$i] );
+	}
+
+for ( my $i = 0; $i <= $#$packages; $i++ ) {
+	if ( $packages->[$i]{'path'} =~ /https*:\/\// ) {
+		( my $filename = $packages->[$i]{'path'} ) =~ s/.*\///;
+
+		if ( ! -f Snap->PKGDIR . "/$filename" ) {
+			Snap->httpget( $packages->[$i]{'path'},
+				Snap->PKGDIR . "/$filename", 0644 );
+			}
+
+		$packages->[$i]{'path'} = Snap->PKGDIR . "/$filename";
+		}
+
+
+	if ( grep( $_ eq $packages->[$i]{'name'}, @$prelist ) ) {
+		$prepkgs->{$packages->[$i]{'name'}} = $packages->[$i];
+
+		splice( @$packages, $i, 1 );
+		$i--;
+		}
+	}
+
+foreach my $package ( @$prelist ) {
+	print "\n";
+
+	$prepkgs->{$package}->install();
+	}
+
+foreach my $package ( @$packages ) {
+	if ( ! $virtfs ) {
+		$virtfs = virtfs( 'mount' );
+		}
+
+	print "\n";
+
+	$package->install();
+	}
+
+virtfs( 'umount' );
+
+print "\n";