vagrant-box-updater

Vagrant 1.1+ plugin to detect changes to a remote box's creation date, and perform an interactive update if desired.

By default Vagrant just store box images locally and never checks if there are updates for that image. Users may therefore end up working with outdated boxes.

This plugin hooks into vagrant box add and vagrant up, saving details about each box sources creation date, and optioning performing an update when a change is detected.

Installation

vagrant plugin install vagrant-box-updater

Usage

After plugin installed it's recommended to re-add box images so that the plugin can collect necessary information about the box.

vagrant box add --force <source_uri>

To disable the plugin for a project:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "precise64"
  config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"

  config.box_updater.disable = true

  // ...

end

To enable automatic updates for a project:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "precise64"
  config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"

  config.box_updater.autoupdate = true

  // ...

end

Install from source (Advanced)

1. Clone project
2. Create a gem file: rake build
3. Install local gem: vagrant plugin install pkg/vagrant-box-updater-0.0.1.gem

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Create new Pull Request