cleaning up vagrant box before packaging

vagrant-packaging.sh

guest$ vagrant ssh
vagrant$ sudo su

# Total upgrade
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

# Ensure the box is minimally provisioned
apt-get -q -y install puppet zerofree

# This seems too dangerous - for now!
#aptitude purge cpp-4.3 gcc-4.3-base
#aptitude purge cpp-4.4 gcc-4.4-base g++-4.4
#aptitude purge python2.6 python2.6-minimal

# Dangerous: selectively remove packages you don't think you need
#orphaner --purge
#debfoster

# Clear as many apt caches as we can
apt-get update -qq
apt-get clean

# Delete lots and lots of files
rm -rf /home/vagrant/.bash_history  \
       /root/.bash_history  \
       /usr/src/vboxguest*  \
       /usr/share/doc  \
       /var/lib/dhcp*/* 

find /var/cache -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;
find /var/log -type f | while read f; do echo -ne '' > $f; done;

# Zero the free space - this first command WILL fire an error
dd if=/dev/zero of=/EMPTY bs=1M
rm -f /EMPTY

# Optional, if it's running: clear memcache
etc/init.d/memcache restart

exit # log out of sudo
exit # log out of the instance