Installed packages not persisted in the Vagrant Box

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Gökhan Şengün

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Nov 9, 2016, 6:03:53 PM11/9/16
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Hello everyone,

Seems to be a bug but I just can not believe that my simple use case fails for everyone, I must be doing something terribly wrong. Packer version I am using is 0.11.0 and VirtualBox version is 5.1.8r111374.

I would like to pack an image based on ubuntu 16.04.1 iso with virtualbox-iso provider and provision a few packages (jq and subversion) using shell provisioner (by calling apt). After Vagrant Box is produced, I use that box with Vagrant, sshing into the box shows that the installed packages are not there!!

I thought that this could be file system sync issue and added a few sync commands around and then wait for 30 seconds with no luck.

Please find the repo reproducing the issue below. I am also attaching the packer log file, it shows no error and tells that the packages installed OK.

Clone the repo below and issue the commands in order to reproduce the problem.

Repo:


Commands:

$ PACKER_LOG=1 packer build ubuntu1604.json
$ vagrant up virtualbox
$ vagrant ssh virtualbox
VM$ jq
The program 'jq' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install jq
VM$ svn
The program 'svn' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install subversion
log.txt

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Nov 9, 2016, 6:42:06 PM11/9/16
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whats the output of vagrant box list

are you re-adding or deleting/adding the new box file ?

Alvaro

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Gökhan Şengün

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Nov 10, 2016, 5:12:26 AM11/10/16
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I am not adding the box Vagrant and directly using the .box file put by Packer under builds folder. In every build I delete the file to make sure it is recreated.
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Pete Brown

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Nov 11, 2016, 6:18:28 AM11/11/16
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I had a similar issue a while ago and it turned out my cleanup script was uninstalling some of the packages I installed.
Check your build output to see what's going on.
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Gökhan Şengün

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Nov 18, 2016, 7:34:09 AM11/18/16
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No cleanup scripts here and build output shows nothing. Build output is attached to the mail and the project is on github below.

Thanks.

Gökhan Şengün

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Nov 21, 2016, 12:34:09 AM11/21/16
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Please refer to the Github issue below. It is about remnant Vagrant box not updating, for details see below.

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