Updating-Existing-Box.md

Devkit

Updating an existing box

Use the makefile to build the drupalbox (virtualbox only):

make drupalbox

Use the makefile to build only one of either virtualbox or vmware:

make virtualbox
make vmware

Note: the vmware build is not actively maintained at this time.

You can also use Packer directly to build the drupalbox:

packer build -var-file=drupalbox/ubuntu.json drupalbox/drupalbox.json
packer build -only=virtualbox-iso -var-file=drupalbox/ubuntu.json drupalbox/drupalbox.json

Both of these approaches run similar commands, but running packer directly gives you the opportunity to use flags to manipulate the build process in a one-off fashion. Try packer --help build for details, and see the Makefile for this project's standard usage.

Releasing a box to Vagrant Cloud

make vagrant-cloud

Updating Ubuntu

When Ubuntu releases a new point release of 16.04, the packer build will throw this error:

==> virtualbox-iso: error downloading ISO: [source path error: stat /path/to/devkit/iso/ubuntu-16.04.4-server-amd64.iso: no such file or directory bad response code: 404]

When this happens, you need to update to the new version:

1. Open drupalbox/ubuntu.json
2. Visit releases.ubuntu.com/16.04 to find the updated values:

• iso_name: ubuntu-16.04.*-server-amd64.iso
• iso_url: http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-16.04.*-server-amd64.iso
• iso_checksum: find this in the SHA256SUMS file for the current releases