packer 1.0.0-rc1 released

[Matthew Hooker]

Hi All,

Today we released the first rc of packer 1.0. You can see the changelog here: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/blob/v1.0.0-rc1/CHANGELOG.md#10rc1-march-16-2017

and download it from here: https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.0.0-rc1/

It would be incredibly if you could run with the RC version and report any errors you come across. We're aiming for a very stable build by 1.0, and so any help we get testing will go a long way towards that goal.

We're planning another RC release next Wednesday the 22nd, and assuming no major bugs turn up, the final 1.0.0 release on March 29th.

Thanks,

--Matt Hooker

[Matthew Hooker]

> It would be incredibly if you could...

Incredibly helpful!

[Dan Linder]

I found a but that was also in 0.12.3 but has continued into -rc1.

On Windows 10, building a RHEL 6 using the "ansible-local" provisioner like this:

    {

      "playbook_file": "ansible/main.yml",

      "role_paths": [

        "./ansible/"

      ],

      "type": "ansible-local"

    },

The build fails with this message:

    vmware-iso: Creating Ansible staging directory...

    vmware-iso: Creating directory: \tmp\packer-provisioner-ansible-local\58d02882-7a65-acd4-fb9c-50a008058b5f

    vmware-iso: Uploading main Playbook file...

==> vmware-iso: Stopping virtual machine...

Note the incorrect (for Unix) directory slashes for the staging directory.

When I enable debugging and get onto the system before it is destroyed, I see that the staging directory above is created in the root home directory:

/root/\tmp\packer-provisioner-ansible-local\58d02882-7a65-acd4-fb9c-50a008058b5f

Apparently the "directory separators" aren't being changed to reflect the Unix guest.

A workaround is to define the "staging_directory" parameter and manually create and destroy it with script provisioners.  My "ansible.sh" script creates the "/root/staging_directory/", and the "cleanup.sh" removes it.

  "provisioners": [

    {

      "execute_command": "bash '{{.Path}}'",

      "scripts": [

        "scripts/local_cd_repository.sh",

"scripts/add_epel.sh",

"scripts/ansible.sh",

"scripts/yum_cleanup.sh"

      ],

      "type": "shell"

    },

    {

      "playbook_file": "ansible/main.yml",

 "staging_directory": "/root/staging_directory/",

      "role_paths": [

        "./ansible/"

      ],

      "type": "ansible-local"

    },

{

 "type": "file",

      "source": "../../ChinaOS/ansible",

      "destination": "/root/ChinaOS"

},

    {

      "execute_command": "bash '{{.Path}}'",

      "scripts": [

        "scripts/RemoveEPEL.sh",

"scripts/cleanup.sh"

      ],

      "type": "shell"

    }

  ],

DanL

[Matthew Hooker]

Thanks for the report, Dan. I don't think we have an issue about this. Created one here: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues/4689 If you wanted to reply to that, it would help in case we need to ask questions when we look into it.

[Dan Linder]

I've added a comment - I can produce a minimal JSON file and steps to reproduce this in a lab if necessary.

DanL

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