nickcharlton/boxes

A command line tool that takes the complexity out of building Vagrant boxes.

boxes's Issues

Add support for Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid).

Allow configuring headlessness, ssh timeout, etc. from command line

The defaults are probably fine when simply building a box but it would be nice when debugging to be able to configure these. Setting a variable that's passed through to the ERB should be simple enough.

Reasonably consistent SSH Timeout errors.

This seems to occur more on non-SSD machines. And inconsistently on faster ones.

And it seems to affect all box templates.

Add support for Debian 9 (Jessie).

Puppet fails to install on Trusty.

It's not detecting the OS release name (i.e.: trusty, wheezy).

Switch to the Chef DK.

The Ruby script is beginning to break on certain versions and so we should move to use the Chef Development Kit.

Problem: How do we ensure we're getting the latest version?

rake clean should remove packer_cache

Wheezy no longer on mirror.

Due to wheezy being very old it no longer exists on most Debian CD mirrors. Below is a list of the mirrors that still carried it (or at least the amd64 arch) recently.

    http://debian.inode.at
    http://debian.carnet.hr
    http://ftp.carnet.hr
    http://debian.fastweb.it
    http://giano.com.dist.unige.it
    http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux
    http://debian.ethz.ch

Organization

Great project! I wanted to compile my thoughts while using this and hopefully contribute some in the process. The goal for me is to get this working with ansible and add some more machines like centos. I am not that famaliar with ruby or rake so hopefully you can give me a bit of guidance so I can submit some pull requests.

Default build

When I add another provisioner "ansible" and another distro "centos", the rake -T list gets pretty long. I think rake default should be renamed to rake all. The other issue is I don't need standard, chef, puppet so I was trying to think of a better command without manually typing out each box configuration.

Does rake have anything available to do something like rake build --type=ansible which would run all distros, targets, but only the type. Or you could run rake build --distros=debian,ubuntu --type=ansible? That way I don't have to type each configuration.

Adding centos

It looks like all the common scripts are geared toward debian based systems right now. What is a good way to re-structure this to add more systems that don't share a common debian base? Should it be common/debian/* and common/redhat/*. Since debian and ubuntu share the scripts it doesn't make sense to duplicate it in each folder.

Also I don't know that centos has codenames for builds so naming it 6.564.erb isnt appealing. Should I rename them all to raring-64.erb, centos6.5-64.erb?

I think thats it for now.

Add Ruby 2.2.0 to the ruby-install script.

This is now the current major version.

rake clean should remove log files.

VMware Tools fails to install.

This seems to be related to a change in suggested patterns. Instead, it should probably use open-vm-tools rather than installing from the disc image.

See: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803

builds fail with Packer > 0.5.0

the last known working version is 0.4.1.

Add Ruby 2.1.5 to the ruby-install script.

This is now the last major version.

Add support for Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily).

Builds don't cancel when boxes is interrupted.

If you Ctrl-C a running operation, the thread controlling packer should receive it too.

A single Ctrl-C should request packer to stop, a "double" Ctrl-C should kill the thread and tidy up.