Re: [Tails-dev] Support for modern Vagrant

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Author: intrigeri
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New-Topics: [Tails-dev] basebox from scratch Re: Support for modern Vagrant
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Support for modern Vagrant
intrigeri wrote (18 Dec 2013 20:15:16 GMT) :
> David Wolinsky wrote (18 Dec 2013 17:22:07 GMT) :
>> What's your preferred method? Shall we just hack the keys into the git repo
>> for now until the maintainer of the box has a chance to update it?


> Unfortunately, the box currently has no maintainer. If someone gives
> me precise instructions, that work on current Debian unstable, to
> build an up-to-date one, then I'm happy to upload it. Any taker?


I realized I was unclear. Such instructions could:

1. either allow me to build a new, up-to-date basebox from scratch
(possibly hard, likely Veewee has changed 10 times since then and
our stuff does not work anymore, as it is customary in the Ruby
ecosystem)
2. or allow me to update our existing basebox (that is, likely to run
two commands in the VM and have the changes persist into the .box);
this is probably easy enough for anyone willing to learn the very
basics of Vagrant, I guess.

> Otherwise, yes, I guess it might be an acceptable "temporary"
> workaround to add the needed keys to our Git repositories. I'm not
> utterly enthusiastic, but oh well, getting this working, somehow,
> is important.


... note that this hack would have to be documented on the relevant
design doc [1], so it is a bit more work, and probably not that
interesting compared to #2 above.

[1] https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/vagrant/

Cheers,
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