is it necessary to destroy a Vagrant box after updating it?

[William Arcaya C.]

Posts read:

https://superuser.com/questions/1164022/vagrant-box-update-vs-apt-get-upgrade

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25914383/update-a-vagrant-box

According to these posts I need destroy my box with guest ArchLinux to take effect the changes. I thought that a Vagrant box was like a virtual drive but running under command line. I have a framework ArchLinux-PHP-MariaDB-NGINX in that box, and I don't want to reinstall all of them once again per every update for Vagrant box, so: is it necessary to destroy a Vagrant box after updating it? Which are pros and cons if I don't destroy it?

Thanks in advance.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello.

if you do changes to the Vagrantfile, you can use vagrant reload

if you do changes to the provisioners of the box, you can either use

vagrant provision

vagrant reload --provision

if you do changes to the base box, then yes, a destroy/up is needed.

if you are using local boxes, then destroy/up is whats needed.

if you are using boxes in vagrant cloud and a new version is up, then 

vagrant box update

vagrant destroy

vagrant up

will be enough.

What changes and how you are doing them?

Alvaro

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[William Arcaya C.]

Thanks Alvaro,

But my question is: MUST I necessarily to destroy my box? Or is there a problem if I wanna keep it as is now? because I don't wish reinstall again my framework. Or is there a better solution?

Thanks in advance.

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

if you don't destroy, the current box won't apply any change as was created from a previous template.

alvaro