As of packer Packer v0.8.0 this issue has been solved upstream. I'll leave the repo here for a while before I remove it completely.

This repo holds in the packer/ directory the packer binaries, built from the master branch(14/02/2015) , accordingly to the build instructions in the original repo https://github.com/mitchellh/packer. The binaries have been built for the linux 64bit architecture aka amd64 or x86_64

The packer binaries also contain the fix created by mariussturm in https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/commit/3a286ab6bdba7b8e5bf6a43c357a0ffeacd3dc97 that fixes the issue present in the github issue hashicorp/packer#1752

This is a temporary repo, it won't be needed once the packer maintainers fix hashicorp/packer#1752

Overwrite your current packer binaries with the ones from the packer/ directory. From the root of this repo test that you can build a docker image by running:

• packer validate template.json && packer build template.json

• the output will be a docker image by the name of ubuntu-14.04.image.tar which packer will drop in the current dir after it is done.

  If the above 2 steps completed succesfully then you've verified that the packer binaries contain the fix for hashicorp/packer#1752