Hello Paul,
Thanks for your feedback. I'm not sure if you meant to reply off-list but I'll include the mailing lists in my reply. Hope you don't mind.

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Paul Alkhimov wrote:

*TL;DR*: it did not work out and I have no idea where to find the gimp sources in the vm.

It should have cloned GIMP source in the following steps (upon typing "vagrant up").

https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp/blob/43fd5d67fa2808ad8f987ee626bcbd6451a475dd/Vagrantfile#L55 https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp/blob/43fd5d67fa2808ad8f987ee626bcbd6451a475dd/setup/everything.sh#L41 https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp/blob/43fd5d67fa2808ad8f987ee626bcbd6451a475dd/setup/gimp-source/install.sh#L18-L34

I attach the log copied directly from the terminal. In this way you can see the way your solution is used by a random person. My approach is to try first is everything works and then, if necessary - to fix the stuff. So, here is what I did:
1. Read your e-mail, read the readme.md at https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp 2. git clone https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp.git (SUCCESS) 3. cd vagrant-gimp && vagrant up (FAILURE: "The program 'vagrant' is currently not installed.")
4. sudo apt-get install vagrant (OK) 5. vagrant up (FAILURE: "Vagrant could not detect VirtualBox") 6. sudo apt-get install virtualbox (OK) 7. vagrant up (FAILURE: vm: * The box 'debian/jessie64' could not be found.)
8. as the error looked strange, I went to the vagrant site and installed the latest provided version=1.7.4. (OK)

*COMMENT*: up to this step I had the problems with wrong version of the vagrant. I accept that I ignored your first instruction in the e-mail ( 1. Install vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/), but on the other hand, neither this e-mail, nor github repo mentioned that I absolutely must use the latest version from the site instead of the provided by the system => I wrongly supposed that any version is ok.

I have incorporated your feedback into the README. See the section at the top for prerequisites.
https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp/blob/43fd5d67fa2808ad8f987ee626bcbd6451a475dd/README.md#prerequisites

9. vagrant up (FAILURE: "Atlas push: * Missing required configuration parameter 'token'....")
10. tried vagrant login with provided vagrant/gimp pair (FAILURE) 11. registered on https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ (OK) 12. vagrant login (OK)

*COMMENT*: these mistakes are also stupid for those who know what vagrant is, but for others I believe this behavior can be completely logical.

These mistakes are not stupid and an account at hashicorp should not have been a barrier to entry. I have updated the bootstrapping process and removed this requirement.
https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp/blob/43fd5d67fa2808ad8f987ee626bcbd6451a475dd/Vagrantfile#L43-L45

13. vagrant up (OK, but it was not extremely fast on my 8MBit connection) 14. I tried to log in into the running system, but did not succeed for unknown reason (FAILURE)
15. shutdown the vm with "sudo shutdown" and vagrant reload (OK) 16. could not find the GIMP sources => *FAILURE*

In fact I found the scripts in setup/gimp-packages/ and other folders, but I don't know where the sources actually are. You say "There should the following files and directories in the vagrant user.

- ~/gimp-git - contains all of the output from the gimp build. - ~/gimp-git/share/config.site - a file containing variables used by the build process.
- ~/git/babl - source code of BABL - ~/git/gegl - source code of GEGL - ~/git/gimp - source code of GIMP - ~/build-gimp.sh - a script to compile BABL, GEGL, and GIMP all at once."

But they are just not there. // I attach a complete host log if it helps.

After reviewing your log it appears the bootstrap failed due to an out-of-date package. I'll work on bootstrapping again to ensure that it is fixed. It's quite possible Debian Jessie removed the package. Here's the excerpt from the log.

==> default: Package libjpeg8-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
==> default: This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
==> default: is only available from another source ==> default: However the following packages replace it: ==> default: libjpeg62-turbo-dev
==> default: E
==> default: :
==> default: Package 'libjpeg8-dev' has no installation candidate ==> default: + apt-get update --fix-missing ==> default: Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease ==> default: Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources ==> default: Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
==> default: Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en
==> default: Ign http://httpredir.debian.org jessie InRelease ==> default: Get:1 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B] ==> default: Hit http://httpredir.debian.org jessie Release ==> default: Get:2 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie/main Sources [7,058 kB]
==> default: Get:3 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,764 kB]
==> default: Get:4 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [4,585 kB]
paul>brix>~>Development  vagrant-gimp>master>$>vagrant reload

It should have properly alerted you with a failure message. I'll work on ensuring the failure message properly surfaces an issue.

My conclusion on this approach currently is following: I need to somehow understand Vagrant to use it at all. And still, the result is not cross-platform, for instance I cannot build for Windows. So a snapshot of the VM is completely enough, it is only huge normally, but OTOH it can be done in the background and it is complete no-brainer.

My hope is that the knowledge of vagrant required is very little other than installing vagrant and typing the commands outlined in the README.

I'll follow up with when I believe the bootstrapping process is fixed.

SAM

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On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Sam Gleske wrote:

I'll follow up with when I believe the bootstrapping process is fixed.

Hi Paul,
I've fixed the issues you encountered when you first tried to bootstrap. Here's the detailed changes.

https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp/commit/46a563b4d4d69cc3397a811f673146c0d2ffc672

To fix your development environment be sure you're in the vagrant-gimp working directory (the one you cloned)

1. git pull origin master 2. vagrant destroy
3. vagrant box update
4. vagrant up

That should correctly bootstrap your environment. For anyone else, refer to the README at https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp

Please let me know how your second experience goes.

SAM

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