Vagrant box creation needlessly downloads Linux from debian-security
The bootstrap installs Linux from Jessie, which we can’t do much about. Then the upgrade downloads an updated kernel from debian-security, which will be unused, since we install Linux from jessie-backports later on.
We should instead install the backports kernel immediately after
apt-get update
, then purge the jessie kernel, and finally upgrade.
This would save quite some time on slow connections when debian-security
has a newer kernel than stable.
Similarly, the “Installing Tails build dependencies” bits could be run
before apt-get -y dist-upgrade
, so we would never upgrade anything
twice :)
This matters more now that we will be creating Vagrant boxes locally much more often than before.
What do you think?
Feature Branch: bugfix/12529-simplify-kernel-install-in-vagrant
Parent Task: #5630 (closed)
Original created by @intrigeri on 12529 (Redmine)