sandstorm-io/vagrant-spk

Include list of installed Debian packages/versions in .sandstorm

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#249 opened on Jan 28, 2020

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22:31 Maybe we could add a feature that dumps a list of debian packages that are installed into the spk, so you can inspect it after the fact to figure out what changed.

For transparency and so that we can diagnose issues while more aggressively allowing updates inside vagrant-spk VMs, we should dump the list of packages and their versions out to a file in .sandstorm that ends up committed to GitHub.

An analogue to this is the "stack" file, which notes what stack was used to build a package, despite being largely vestigial after the stack is set up, but useful for reference.

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Identify where Vagrant provisions the VM or runs shell scripts in the codebase. Then add a command to execute 'dpkg l' and save the output to a file in the .sandstorm directory (e.g., .sandstorm/debian packages.txt). Ensure the file is committed to GitHub for transparency.
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