Who creates the "generic" Vagrant boxes?

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Lucas Rangit Magasweran

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Nov 2, 2017, 8:00:42 PM11/2/17
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Who produces the https://app.vagrantup.com/generic boxes? Where can I find information about what have changed between releases?

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Nov 3, 2017, 5:35:50 AM11/3/17
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Hello

If there is no email/contact information in the page of the org or in each box then I am afraid there no a way to contact them.

The same goes for a pseudo changelog, if there is no info on changes.

Alvaro.

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Lucas Rangit Magasweran <external+grou...@magasweran.com> wrote:
Who produces the https://app.vagrantup.com/generic boxes? Where can I find information about what have changed between releases?

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Lucas Rangit Magasweran

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Nov 3, 2017, 6:31:43 PM11/3/17
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Ok. In that case I'll use the Bento boxes. They are up to date and supported at https://github.com/chef/bento .


On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 2:35:50 AM UTC-7, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:
Hello

If there is no email/contact information in the page of the org or in each box then I am afraid there no a way to contact them.

The same goes for a pseudo changelog, if there is no info on changes.

Alvaro.
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Lucas Rangit Magasweran <external+grou...@magasweran.com> wrote:
Who produces the https://app.vagrantup.com/generic boxes? Where can I find information about what have changed between releases?

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andr...@gmail.com

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Nov 5, 2017, 5:59:55 PM11/5/17
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One would assume that Hashicorp has this information. Could it be that these releases are maintained by them?


On Friday, 3 November 2017 22:35:50 UTC+13, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:
Hello

If there is no email/contact information in the page of the org or in each box then I am afraid there no a way to contact them.

The same goes for a pseudo changelog, if there is no info on changes.

Alvaro.
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Lucas Rangit Magasweran <external+grou...@magasweran.com> wrote:
Who produces the https://app.vagrantup.com/generic boxes? Where can I find information about what have changed between releases?

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Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Nov 6, 2017, 3:58:56 AM11/6/17
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Hello

hashicorp provides the storage.

Create users and store public boxes is free.

However is upto each person to share contact details or put some sort of changelog, is not something hashicorp does.

Same goes to Q/A for boxes, HashiCorp doesn't Q/A any box.

For this reason, there is also the tool packer.io that can be used to create boxes.

Alvaro.

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Thiago Hickmann

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Mar 6, 2018, 9:47:02 AM3/6/18
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I think this is a very relevant question.
I was planning to "vagrant up" a Alpine based VM, and this "generic" user account is the only with boxes of the OS.

All boxes are being kept updated, and looks like someone took the effort to automate the build process somehow.
So why not be more transparent about WHO keeps this user running?
It's somewhat suspicious.

I think Hashicorp should rethink their polices about the minimum required information in the VagrantCloud profiles.
Nowadays looks like is essentially zero.

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Mar 6, 2018, 11:14:17 AM3/6/18
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someone created an organization named generic

like anyone could create an org called "official" is just a name


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Robert Lilly

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Mar 7, 2018, 12:42:39 PM3/7/18
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I would rather be safe than sorry when it comes to using boxes from sources I don't know and trust.  If I don't know the author and they haven't published a link to a public Git repo I pass and keep looking.

That being said, I do wish HashiCorp would establish stricter standards for making boxes publicly available through their service. At the very least I'd like to see valid contact info for the author and ideally a link to a public Git repo for the source.


On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 8:14:17 AM UTC-8, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:
someone created an organization named generic

like anyone could create an org called "official" is just a name

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Thiago Hickmann <thia...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think this is a very relevant question.
I was planning to "vagrant up" a Alpine based VM, and this "generic" user account is the only with boxes of the OS.

All boxes are being kept updated, and looks like someone took the effort to automate the build process somehow.
So why not be more transparent about WHO keeps this user running?
It's somewhat suspicious.

I think Hashicorp should rethink their polices about the minimum required information in the VagrantCloud profiles.
Nowadays looks like is essentially zero.

On Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 10:00:42 PM UTC-2, Lucas Rangit Magasweran wrote:
Who produces the https://app.vagrantup.com/generic boxes? Where can I find information about what have changed between releases?

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ran....@icloud.com

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Apr 3, 2019, 1:40:54 AM4/3/19
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 They are..."Base boxes built by benevolent robots;" but the project is maintained by Ladar Levison as Roboxes (as mentioned on the "Generic" Vagrant organization page). You can find the GitHub repo under Lavabit @ lavabit/robox.

andr...@gmail.com

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Good, they added that link. It did not use to be there.

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