Hi Jan, I've took a quick look at your box and there are few points that I'd like to remark:
- As this is a box that's intended to be shared with the world, would be nice if it had "http://http.debian.net/debian/"; as its default mirror. - The root partition could be a bit more generous than 2GiB, as the virtual disk will grow with usage. That's not a rule, but I've seen some Vagrant boxes using 40-80GiB for this. - Do you really think that the `01_nodoc` script is needed? I would understand if that was an image meant to be used in a non-interactive environment, but that's not the most common use case for Vagrant. - Somewhat related to the last one, but maybe the packages' option "install_standard"[1] could be used to make the box a little bit more user-friendly. Also, do you mind putting this manifest on a Git (possible GitHub) repository? This will make easier to look at its current state and change history, propose changes, etc. Regards, Tiago. [1]: https://bootstrap-vz.readthedocs.org/en/wip-integration-testing/manifest.html#packages On 17 April 2015 at 13:29, Jan Niggemann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > following James Brombergers proposal > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2015/04/msg00011.html), I'm planning > to create official debian boxes and upload them to atlas (formerly > vagrantcloud). > > My planning is roughly the following: > - get to know bootstrap-vz (<- done) > - create a sustainable environment for bootstrapping (<- done) > - create a "alpha" box to gather feedback (<- done, see download link below) > - shrink boxes (eg. remove unused locales, ...) > - figure out how to automate upload of boxes to my own account on atlas > - request delegation from DPL > - do whatever is necessary to setup and maintain an official debian account > on atlas > - monitor debian-announce and build new boxes when necessary > > I'm planning to initially create stable boxes i386 and amd46 and later add > testing and perhaps oldstable. > > For now, I'd very much like the community to test the box below and give me > some feedback on what to change / improve. > > The box file is 181MB and located here: > http://files.hz6.de/debian-wheezy-i386-150417.box > > For completeness' sake I'm including the manifest file I've used to create > this box: > --- > provider: > name: virtualbox > guest_additions: /root/images/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso > bootstrapper: > workspace: /root/images/workspace > image: > name: debian-{system.release}-{system.architecture}-{%y}{%m}{%d} > description: Debian {system.release} {system.architecture} > system: > release: wheezy > architecture: i386 > bootloader: grub > charmap: UTF-8 > hostname: localhost > locale: en_US > timezone: UTC > packages: > mirror: http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ > volume: > backing: vmdk > partitions: > type: msdos > root: > size: 2GiB > filesystem: ext4 > plugins: > apt_proxy: > address: 10.11.1.74 > port: 3142 > vagrant: {} > minimize_size: > zerofree: true > shrink: true > image_commands: > commands: [ ["cp", "/root/images/01_nodoc", > "{root}/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/"] ] > > The 01_nodoc file is my first shot at further reducing the box size: > path-exclude /usr/share/doc/* > # we need to keep copyright files for legal reasons > path-include /usr/share/doc/*/copyright > path-exclude /usr/share/man/* > path-exclude /usr/share/groff/* > path-exclude /usr/share/info/* > # lintian stuff is small, but really unnecessary > path-exclude /usr/share/lintian/* > path-exclude /usr/share/linda/* > # lang > path-exclude /usr/share/locale/* > path-include /usr/share/locale/en* > path-exclude /usr/share/i18n/locale/* > path-include /usr/share/i18n/locale/en* > > Have a nice weekend > Jan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/20150417182913.horde.afvn7xrsydx8fjvih8s4...@htjn.suhail.uberspace.de > -- Tiago "Myhro" Ilieve Blog: http://blog.myhro.info/ GitHub: https://github.com/myhro/ Montes Claros - MG, Brasil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CALdTKe9fCPfS7O1PqDgH0zWLobky_1=c+tw2311nrmr8jcb...@mail.gmail.com
