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Configurations for generating Vagrant base boxes

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Upgrade OS when extending VM's #394

Closed mcandre closed 3 years ago

mcandre commented 3 years ago

[ ] Debian derivatives:

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade \
        -q \
        -y \
        -u \
        -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef"

[ ] BSD derivatives
[ ] Windows (both host and Chocolatey)
[ ] macOS (both host and third party package managers)
[ ] Haiku
[ ] MINIX
[ ] Illumos
[ ] Void Linux
[ ] OpenWrt
[ ] Alpine
[ ] RHEL

mcandre commented 3 years ago

wontfix

We already tried this. For so many platforms, this kind of upgrade has historically been breaking. In particular, Debian grub-pc integrates poorly with Vagrant, causing the upgrade process to fail.

Any downstream boxes desiring to upgrade, should be built every so often on top of an already up-to-date, stable OS box.