Sorry to reply to my own post, but I realize now that my Vagrantfile is
being executed. Just didn't look like it since it couldn't find the
cookbook files and therefore the output looked boilerplate. However, I am
still left with cookbook files that are not being found and therefore the
box
So I package a box:
vagrant package --base MyDevelopment --output MyDevelopment-0.5.0.box
--include cookbooks --vagrantfile Vagrantfile
When I untar the box, cookbooks and its entire tree and the correct
Vagrantfile are in there. So far so good
But no combination of "vagrant box add" and