Neat, I'm always glad to hear things are more Debian-integrated than I thought. Can you describe this on http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/WindowsAzureImage ? Currently it doesn't mention any way to build Azure images without having access to either Azure or Hyper-V.
The page also indicates that the current image was "created on 3 january 2012." From the VM Depot link it appears 3 January 2013 was meant, and also that only a Debian wheezy-when-it-was-still-testing image is in the VM Depot. While I probably shouldn't personally be responsible for maintaining Azure images while working for Google, with my Debian hat on I hope someone does it. :) - Jimmy On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Arnaud Patard <[email protected]> wrote: > Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> writes: > > >>> So, what I've had in mind since very long time (as readers of this list >>> know) is to advertise more broadly than we currently have done the >>> "official" images we have. Therefore the reasons for my questions was to >>> understand if, as you seemed to believe, none of the current images we >>> currently have qualify for some official communication by the project. >> >> I didn't actually say or mean that - I said "most or all" [of the >> three public cloud image types] seemed not to qualify as "official >> Debian". The EC2 images are the ones which I was least sure about, and >> indeed they seem either official or quite close to it. This is much >> less obvious for the other two. I was also making my comment in >> reference to Lucas' original definition (revisions to that hadn't been >> shared yet), and the overall focus of my comment was "let's >> communicate officially even though they aren't official images, since >> we already do for the unofficial Debian ISOs with firmware". We agree >> official communication is totally reasonable. >> >> The Google Compute Engine images have a few issues to address before >> they might qualify as official from Debian's perspective, though I'm >> pleased that they're close enough to be called Debian. As for Windows >> Azure, http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/WindowsAzureImage makes it clear >> that to follow the Azure build instructions, you have to follow >> directions maintained by Joyent in their GitHub space to compile a >> non-Debian version of Node.js, after which you use Node.js's package >> manager npm to obtain azure-cli from non-Debian repositories. This >> seems like it fails any reasonable definition of Debian maintenance of >> build tools. Some might also be concerned by the requirement for Azure >> credentials to build an image. > > To clear some misunderstanding: the azure node.js tool is needed to > manage things from the command line. To build an image, there's no need > for credentials or something like that. You don't need any extra tools > too (including azure-cli): everything is in debian (the main missing > tool was the agent 'waagent', which is in testing and unstable). > > For what it worth, I'm using this script to build my images: > http://git.hupstream.com/?p=projects/azure-image.git;a=blob;f=azure.sh;h=65bff7b332912a0446baf693acdfc36decdd060f;hb=HEAD > > If you manage to find something used by this script not in sid, please > shout :) > > > Arnaud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAJbdudVXX21cMojQOU_AnZW+DoJWP18XV=1kkqubgdrr_gn...@mail.gmail.com
