Build Update Policy: Automated or manual? #1638
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we have never automated the builds. I have it as a todo in the changelog in a small laundry list of things I'd like to do. Unfortunately I'm the only one actively maintaining it on my free time mostly. |
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Every 3-6 months I have to manually build all the vagrant boxes and publish them. GHA builds haven't been the most reliable. Some GHA builds are done on my home servers with self-hosted runners due to inability to automate parallels, vmware, installs etc... on GHA public runners. |
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I'm happy to review and merge pull requests for updated versions and or any other updates that help enhance the project. I try to keep up with updates on the runners but is a dance to update virtualzation providers, packer, and packer plugins without things breaking each other or my build servers. |
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Thank you for the peak behind the curtains 😄 Which parts and builds could contributions update or even automate here if not everything is possible on GHA public runners? |
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If there is anyway to automate install and initialization of parallels and vmware-(workstation/fusion) on GHA public runner. As well as some OS builds still need troubleshooting for failures. I have a table in the changelog.md of all the OS builds and which ones work and don't. |
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What is the update policy for new builds, are they triggered manually?
https://github.com/chef/bento/blob/main/.github/workflows/pkr-bld-virtualbox-arm64.yml
Since the last build 202508.03.0 there have been new releases, for example Ubuntu 24.04.3 and 22.04.5, VirtualBox 7.2 and Parallels Desktop 26.
https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/release-team/list-of-releases/
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
https://kb.parallels.com/131014/
Could the builds be automatically triggered, for example weekly if a script discovers new releases?
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