re-package-vagrant-box.md

Re-package a vagrant box after modification

• SSH into existing box and make changes

Update software

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y && apt-get autoremove --purge -y

• exit and vagrant reload

Update VirtualBox Guest additions

See here

• exit and vagrant reload

Remove all MySQL databases

mysql -uroot -p  -e "SHOW DATABASES;" | grep -v Database | grep -v mysql| grep -v sys | grep -v performance_schema | grep -v information_schema | gawk '{print "drop database " $1 ";select sleep(0.1);"}' | mysql -uroot -proot

Reduce size of the box:

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo rm -rf /var/log/vboxadd-install* /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions*
# run as root, clears all log files
for logfile in `find /var/log -name '*.log' -type f`; do echo '' > $logfile; done
rm -rf /tmp/*
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/EMPTY bs=1M
sudo rm -f /EMPTY
cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history && history -c && exit

• Halt the box and re-package:

vagrant halt
vagrant package --output /path/to/mynew.box

• Get checksum:

openssl sha1 /path/to/mynew.box

• Add new version to the json catalog incl. checksum
• Upload new version to server