pkg_add can't find things when run from config.vm.provision

[mcandre]

sudo pkg_add works in a manual vagrant ssh session, but when I try to automate installing the same packages by specifying a config.vm.provision in the Vagrantfile, for some reason pkg_add fails.

Perhaps there is some shell configuration that is not being fully loaded in non-interactive mode?

[mcandre]

Ah, PKG_PATH is being configured by /home/vagrant/.profile, which appears to not be loaded by non-interactive sessions, which includes config.vm.provision.

As a workaround, I am explicitly setting PKG_PATH when I run pkg_add commands:

Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ryanmaclean/openbsd-6.0"
  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "bootstrap.sh"
end

bootstrap.sh:

#!/bin/sh
sudo PKG_PATH=http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/packages/amd64/ pkg_add rust cargo

But it would be nice if PKG_PATH were available by default for all sessions, including non-interactive sessions.

[dentarg]

Perhaps there is some shell configuration that is not being fully loaded in non-interactive mode?

Yes, from https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/shell.html:

For POSIX-like machines, the shell provisioner executes scripts with SSH.

~/.profile isn't sourced for non-interactive / non-login login shells, for various reasons. PKG_PATH need to be set with env argument to the shell provisioner.

[dentarg]

Another option is to use installurl(5), not that well documented that it also works for pkg_add, but it does.