Bug#945353: Vagrant libvirt and virtualbox providers missing for buster64 10.1.0

[Emmanuel Kasper <emmanuel@libera.cc>]

Le 23/11/2019 à 14:17, Jonas Meurer a écrit :
> Package: cloud.debian.org
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello,
> 
> for some reason, boxes for providers 'libvirt' and 'virtualbox' are missing for
> buster64 tag 'v10.1.0' from https://app.vagrantup.com/debian/boxes/buster64.
> 
> Unfortunately, this breaks inital setup of debian/buster64 boxes with those
> providers, as many packages from the 10.0.0 apt sources list caches don't exist
> in the archives any longer.
> 
> Cheers
>  jonas
> 

Hi Jonas !

Thanks you for your interest for the Debian Vagrant Boxes.
Unfortunately we don't have point releases for Vagrant Boxes for Buster,
see here for the rationale:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2019/09/msg00041.html
Note that LXC boxes are not concerned by this, as they use a different
tooling, and have currently a different maintainer.

The package cache for Base Boxes is anyway always updated, since we
don't rebuild the boxes after every security upgrade which has been
pushed to the archive.

Concerning the package cache, what prevents you from refreshing it
before installing new packages ?
I suppose most provisioning tools support this. For instance for ansible
you can have a package cache refresh by setting update_cache: yes for
the apt module in your yaml manifest.

Emmanuel

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