vagrant box repackage command

the 'repackage' command creates a distributable box file from the unpacked box in your ~/.vagrant.d/boxes directory.


Let's say you "vagrant box add" a box named centos.box from an URL
vagrant will extract centos.box in your vagrant home folder (the box format is just a tar file)
in my case ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/centos

In that folder you will see files like :
 [root@goll tmp]# ls ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/centos65/0/virtualbox/
  box-disk1.vmdk  box.ovf  metadata.json  Vagrantfile

say that you deleted this centos_x86_64.box, and no longer have it.
When you run "vagrant box repackage centos65 virtualbox 0"
vagrant will create a new tar file in the current directory named package.box containing those 3 files.

thx

How one can create vagrant package from a running vagrant box in virtual box with just a size in MB

This still doesn't explain the difference between:
vagrant package --base NAME --output NAME
&
vagrant box repackage NAME PROVIDER VERSION

P.S. I am searching for more info on the subject and the diff, if any.