Needs to be updated for move to gitlab

[Moini]

Hi Olof,

can you let me know if you have the time to update the vagrant file?

This repo was linked from the Inkscape website at https://inkscape.org/en/develop/getting-started/ , and I had to take it out of it now, because of the git move. However, I would like to include it again, when the repo has been updated.

[Note to self: this is the text:
Building inside a Virtual Box VM

Possibly the simplest way to build Inkscape is using inkup, which provides you with a Vagrantfile capable of building a virtual machine, which build Inkscape from sources. It requires you to have VirtualBox and Vagrant installed on your machine.]

[objarni]

Hi, I'll have a look and get back to you. It should in principle be just about using got instead of bzr in script but was some months since I tested it now. Regards, Den 10 juni 2017 23:59 skrev "Moini" <notifications@github.com>:

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[Moini]

Thx, @objarni !

[objarni]

I have fiddled around for awhile now, it seems I cannot get Vagrant+VBox to install guest additions (needed for vagrant to function) correctly on my system (Windows 10, VBox 5.1.16, Vagrant 1.9.2), so I am not able to test the switch just now.

Do you have a functioning VBox+Vagrant system to test the switch in?

[Moini]

VBox yes, but I've never used Vagrant. I'm not even sure about how these things will be 'stacked'...

I assume that vagrant opens a virtualbox instance and creates or downloads a VM, then logs into it and pulls and builds Inkscape?
(why the 'docker' folder?)

But I'm going to test your instructions now ;-)

[Moini]

First issue:
doesn't work with ssh, needed to do

git clone https://github.com/objarni/inkup.git
(this will always work, no matter if you have your ssh keys configured correctly or not)

Second issue:
Vagrant from package management doesn't find VirtualBox, although it is installed.
Seems it only supports Vbox 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.0, and I have got 5.1.22... (newer than what is available from repos, because it fixes an issue...)
Current version from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html works with my Virtualbox (but that's not an issue for most people - just caused by my custom VBox installation).

Third issue:
Same ssh problem for inkscape.
Changing address to https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape.git solved it.

Fourth issue:
starting vagrant up when machine is already downloaded and imported, but there is no inkscape source code on it, just stops. Can it check for this instead, in case gitlab couldn't be reached?

==> default: Machine already provisioned. Run `vagrant provision` or use the `--provision`
==> default: flag to force provisioning. Provisioners marked to run always will still run.

So, I deleted the VM, and tried anew.

(btw. it asks me if I want to upgrade to 16.04, when I log in)

fifth issue:
git clone seems to fail (nothing happens, no files in /inkscape directory) - when done manually, it works....

Dinner is ready, taking a break.

[objarni]

Thanks for your thourough testing!

To answer each of your issues:

1. Ah, yes. Changing to https instead of ssh will not even assume people have SSH keys setup, which makes sense. I'll change.

2. Argh, tricky. Not sure how to handle ATM.

3. Good, I'll change.

4. Yeah, this is one reason I'd like to change to ansible, puppet or chef instead of "custom bash script" inside the Vagrantfile. Those tools are much better at handling 'recovery/start/restart' than a bash script can ever be... So I'm slightly reluctant to "hack" the script, as I'd rather not make it any more complicated than it alredy is. Of the three tools I mentioned, ansible is the least heavyweight when it comes to learning/dependencies (just ssh) and also the most modern, so I'd prefer ansible before the other two.

5. No idea why it fails. Would you retry after throwing away the inkup_xyz machine from the VBox main interface? (it's just another VM)?

[objarni]

About docker: I have removed it. It was an attempt to switch from vagrant to docker, however it required the host OS to be Linux, and all necessary binary library dependences to be available too, which just misses the target of inkup (which is to make it easy to get started with inkscape development).

[objarni]

I have solved (1) and (3); would you mind re-trying "vagrant up" from scratch, that is after removing the previous VM? If that succeeds, I would consider this issue closed.

Of course, the general hassle of vagrant/vbox/vbox guest additions versioning does not go away, but it is unrelated to this issue.

[Moini]

I think 5.) might have been an issue with me not using ls -a, but only ls....
Vagrant is running currently, I'll check again.

I've looked up if it's possible to only get a single git branch, to reduce the time it takes to clone.
git clone -b trunk (or master now?) --single-branch git://sub.domain.com/repo.git - but not sure if it makes a relevant difference. Inkscape is huge with or without the 120 branches currently in the repo...

[objarni]

Ah, great idea!

I just tried, the command "git clone https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape.git --single-branch" took less than 15 seconds! Terrific!

You or me to add --single-branch? 💃

[Moini]

You accidentally used the github repo mirror of Inkscape in your Vagrantfile ;-)

[Moini]

Can you do both?

[Moini]

I haven't checked how it works to update such a branch. Hope there are no pitfalls.

[objarni]

Github, what a mistake! :) I blame Inkup being on Github.. Fixed, and using single-branch clone too.

"I haven't checked how it works to update such a branch. "

I don't understand what you mean?

[Moini]

I know that if you do a lightweight bzr checkout, that branch is kind of worthless for updating etc. Was afraid that there may be a similar issue with single-branch git checkouts.