[chef] Re: Re: Is there an update cycle for bento basboxes?

[Torben Knerr < >]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Joshua Timberman 
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 wrote:
> Ohai!
>
> On Oct 1, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Torben Knerr 
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>  wrote:
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>> Are the bento baseboxes on S3 (as listed on
>> https://github.com/opscode/bento) updated regularly, e.g. when new
>> Chef versions come out?
>>
>> Just wanted to know whether I can expect to always get the same box
>> from the S3 Url or whether the contents of the box might change over
>> time.
>
>
> We didn't update to 10.14.0 because of regressions that were fixed in 
> 10.14.2 and 10.14.4. There's currently an issue in the omnibus packaging of 
> 10.14.4-1, so we're waiting to update the bento-built boxes until that is 
> resolved (should be this week).
>
> On Friday, the following boxes were updated with 10.12.0:
>
> opscode-centos-5.8-i386.box
> opscode-centos-5.8.box
> opscode-centos-6.3-i386.box
> opscode-centos-6.3.box
> opscode-ubuntu-10.04-i386.box
> opscode-ubuntu-10.04.box
> opscode-ubuntu-12.04-i386.box
> opscode-ubuntu-12.04.box
>
> As soon as the omnibus packaging is fixed for 10.14.4, we'll update with 
> that.
>
> We'll also post more widely when these updates are done so folks are aware. 
> As it is now, if you already have a box installed in your vagrant 
> environment (~/.vagrant.d/boxes), it won't be updated until you 
> specifically tell it to, usually by removing the existing box and letting 
> Vagrant get the new one.
>
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>

Thanks Joshau for the detailed answer.

Would it make sense to encode the chef version into either the S3 URL
or the box name?

For example:
https://opscode-vm.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/boxes/10.12.0/opscode-ubuntu-12.04-i386.box
https://opscode-vm.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/boxes/10.14.4/opscode-ubuntu-12.04-i386.box
https://opscode-vm.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/boxes/latest/opscode-ubuntu-12.04-i386.box

Or like this:
https://opscode-vm.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/boxes/opscode-ubuntu-12.04-i386-chef-10.12.0.box
https://opscode-vm.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/boxes/opscode-ubuntu-12.04-i386-chef-10.14.4.box
https://opscode-vm.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/boxes/opscode-ubuntu-12.04-i386-chef-latest.box

You would get the basebox with the latest chef version using the
"latest" link, but could still access "stable" versions of the
baseboxes with the chef version encoded in the link.

If you think this makes sense I would create a ticket for it.