[CentOS-devel] Fwd: Vagrant boxes (7.2.1511)

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Carlos Rodrigues <cefrodrigues at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Laurentiu Pancescu <lpancescu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> They're available. You have to enable the "vault" repositories, which
> >> are fortunately listed in the /etc/yum.repos.d/Centos-Vault.repo.
>
> Enabling the vault repository isn't an option since any given release
> doesn't have a vault configured for its own version, only for previous
> ones.
>
> > On 14/12/16 04:04, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> >
> > Good point. I see that Carlos has already found a solution by customizing
> > the vbguest installer in the Vagrantfile:
> >
> > https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest/issues/240#
> issuecomment-266741691
>
> Unfortunately that "solution" breaks when there isn't a "kernel-devel"
> package in "updates" yet. It also breaks when a particular release is
> dropped out of "mirror.centos.org"(*).
>
> The first bit is fixable one way or the other. The second bit is
> fixable by using "vault.centos.org", but that would require a release
> to be vaulted _before_ the new release becomes available. Right now
> "vault.centos.org" doesn't contain binary packages for 7.2.1511, so
> that isn't happening.
>

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8424


> (*) The point here is to be able to destroy a vagrant instance and
> safely recreate it sometime in the future (maybe the far future). This
> also means no mandatory system updates inside the VM to be able to
> build the guest additions.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Carlos Rodrigues
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