Re: enhancing openstack-debian-images (was: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud)

2015-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/10/2015 08:34 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Microsoft would like to use the Debian name and logo to promote those > Debian images in the Azure Marketplace.[6] credativ will maintain and > enhance those Debian images and Debian developers at credativ will > accompany this process. FYI, thi

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
g said, I'd love to have our release team be more liberal on updates of cloud stuff. Cloud-init for example, has an open bug for MONTHS which we are stuck on. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
ybe stable + some backports would be ok...). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Debian images (was: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud)

2015-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
images. But could Microsoft design some kind of the same process, which would trigger an upload? I don't think writing such a REST API server is hard, and it could be just a hack on a VM which would then download from cdimages.d.o and upload to Azure. Your thoughts everyone? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/12/2015 04:06 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 12, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> changes, isn't a point of argumentation (see my previous mail). All of >> the packages must be taken from stable, unchanged, and if some are taken >> from backports, this must be

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/12/2015 04:52 PM, kuLa wrote: > On 2015-11-12 15:58:03, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> As per the discussions during debconf, to be called "official", the >> images have to be built: >> - directly from an unmodified stable >> - with reproducibility on any

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
(it's IMO a distraction of very low importance). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/12/2015 07:58 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 03:58:03PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> As per the discussions during debconf, to be called "official", > > And the rules for "unofficial" would be? At least I can't remember &

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/13/2015 12:16 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 12, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >>>> changes, isn't a point of argumentation (see my previous mail). All of >>>> the packages must be taken from stable, unchanged, and if some are taken >>>>

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/15/2015 06:50 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 11/12/2015 04:52 PM, kuLa wrote: >>> On 2015-11-12 15:58:03, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>>> As per the discussions during debconf, to be called "of

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/15/2015 11:41 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:28:57PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 11/15/2015 06:50 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>>> On 11/12/2015 04:52 PM, kuLa wr

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/21/2015 04:17 PM, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > On 2015-11-15 18:50:45, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> On 11/12/2015 04:52 PM, kuLa wrote: >>>> On 2015-11-12 15:58:03, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>>&

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/23/2015 01:28 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Apologies for delayed responses - massively busy in the last week > ... ] No worries, and no hurry. :) > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:04:19PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 11/12/2015 07:58 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: >>

Re: About non-Stable files in Cloud images: create a Blend ? Distribute image builders on ftp.debian.org ? More liberal Stable updates ? (Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud)

2015-11-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/25/2015 04:06 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 04:01:50PM +0100, Thomas Goirand a écrit : >> >> Unfortunately, "driven by technological necessity", or the size of >> changes, isn't a point of argumentation (see my previous mail). All o

Re: functional testing cloud-init (was: cloud-init: backports, stable updates and collaborative maintenance.)

2015-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
est extensively. Your thoughts? Is there anything we could do with other types of cloud in an automated way? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: About non-Stable files in Cloud images: More liberal Stable updates ? (Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud)

2015-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
cloud-init? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Cloud images with backports APT-enabled.

2015-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
explicitely selected. Does somebody know if this has already been discussed > somewhere ? I'd also would like this feature to be added to APT (with a possible option for it). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Timeline for official Debian cloud images for the Stretch release

2016-03-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
tly uses the Cirros image, because it's smaller (a few megs), so it's faster to test OpenStack. In the context of testing the Debian image, I could switch to the Debian image: it's only 1 or 2 lines to change, as this was what I was doing to begin with. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Building cloud images on Debian infrastructure

2016-03-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
diskimage-builder, which really, does a lot (really a lot) and is really modular. If there's one tool to work on so it becomes *the* generalist solution, then it's that one. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Meeting minutes "Azure images build process"

2016-03-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
s a slightly patched version of zigo's OpenStack image > builder script. Despite asking multiple times, I haven't seen the patch. Could you please publish it somewhere? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

OpenStack image now using Grub by default

2016-05-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
we stop caring for oldstable, which is anyway EOL (well, LTS...). As Steve re-added generation of the weekly testing images for OpenStack, hopefully next week, we'll see new official images using Grub and Ext4. Hoping these changes will please everyone, Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Call For Participation Debian Cloud Sprint

2016-08-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
o attend remotely, for example with hangout or this kind of thing? Even if it was very late for me, I wouldn't mind. I would also suggest that we prepare everything and start discussion here on the mailing lists. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Call For Participation Debian Cloud Sprint

2016-08-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/12/2016 10:10 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > As the maintainer of OpenStack in Debian, and the person maintaining the > official Debian image for OpenStack available from cdimage.debian.org, > I'd be interested to join. However, both the timing (ie: right after th

Re: Call For Participation Debian Cloud Sprint

2016-08-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
c to bikeshed about tooling. If it was, then we'd be much better to discuss it over the lists first. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
buntu was (or still is?) using live-build for its official images. > Do EC2 eimages really need to be built in an EBS volume? Would it be > good enough to copy them there after, building in a loop file like > everything else until that moment? Well, it's been about a year I'm asking that someone tests the openstack images on EC2: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/ IMO, they should "just work" out of the box. The jessie one though should only work on HVM though. Could someone really take the time to test? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/16/2016 09:19 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > For me, my concerns are: > > 1) I think involving d-i is the wrong approach for building images. > > 2) For me, the lack of shared libraries in Go is a deal-killer for > infrastructure tools I'm going to depend on. I very much agree with all of the abo

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/19/2016 03:02 AM, Adam Bolte wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:19:42AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> I'm however surprised that in your review, you didn't take into account: >> - openstack-debian-images (currently the only tool which is officially >&g

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/22/2016 01:29 PM, Adam Bolte wrote: > On 22/08/16 18:49, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 08/19/2016 03:02 AM, Adam Bolte wrote: >>> I continue to use and maintain debian-image-builder (over at >>> https://github.com/sitepoint/debian-image-builder) which is somewhat &

OpenStack image for arm64

2017-04-01 Thread Thomas Goirand
and report success or failure. I'd like to hereby thanks Steve for his support and continuous work. He's been just great. Hoping this work will please all Debian users on the cloud, Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: OpenStack image for arm64

2017-04-02 Thread Thomas Goirand
> report success or failure. > > I honestly wasn't aware that I can run arm64 on AWS if this is the case I have > some reading to do (any pointers appreciated). That's not what I wrote (or did I?). You can test the *amd64* image from this URL: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/ Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-07-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
anymore (let's not go into details why this happened), Steve does it at the same time as other Debian images. It's now included in a single process of building images. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-07-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
"to go into details". > This type of thing keeps people in the dark and that is something I do > not support. There is no need to go over all the details but at least > provide proof as I have done. > > On 5 July 2017 at 08:34, Thomas Goirand <mailto:tho...@goirand

Validating OpenStack images after building

2017-12-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
you could integrate the image-test script run within the image build process? I'm particularly interested in having it integrated in the Debian testing image, so we make sure there's no regression. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Validating OpenStack images after building

2017-12-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/11/2017 07:01 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 06:34:32PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Hi Steve and everyone else, >> >> This was overdue, but here it is. >> >> In Casulana, under /home/cloud-build/hack/zigo2, you'll find a script

Re: new tasksel

2014-09-07 Thread Thomas Goirand
roxy Node │ > > Oh, that's just great! Thanks for doing this. I've attached the diff for adding OpenStack tasks. As you can see, it's simply using the meta packages that we have already. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there? (reloaded)

2014-09-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
rary, discussing the tasks themselves is helpful, because they are easy to modify. I'm sure someone will reply to this thread with more nice ideas to improve it even more. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/09/msg00206.html [2] https://wiki.

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there? (reloaded)

2014-09-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/09/2014 06:21 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> >> It's looking like some of the options are confusing for both advanced >> users and newbies. The technologies behind the tasks are hidden, and >> there