Re: Request to add a WSL image to the cloud repository
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 08:28:40AM +0200, Herbert Groot Jebbink wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 7:53 AM Herbert Groot Jebbink wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 6:49 AM Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 06:19:55AM +0200, Herbert Groot Jebbink wrote:
> >> > It would be great if a wsl (windows subsystem for linux) image is added to
> >> > the could images
> >> > Something like [1]https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/
> >> > Also a directory current or latest would be great, then it makes
> >> > installing from a script pretty easy.
> >>
> >> AFAIK, there are already Debian WSL images available from Microsoft.
> >> Who creates those? Should this request maybe start with them?
> >>
> > There is indeed a Debian app in the Windows store, the owner is not
> > Microsoft but "The Debian Project".
> >
> > This must be installed manually, and it does do things I don't want, like
> > installing it to the list of installed apps.
> >
> > I'm looking for a possibility to install it with a script,
> > myproject-install.cmd, below how it works with Ubuntu but I prefer Debian.
> >
> > set wsl=d:\wsl
> > set image=https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64-wsl.rootfs.tar.gz
> >
> > curl %image% --output "%wsl%\image.tar.gz"
> > wsl --import myproject "%wsl%\myproject" "%wsl%\image.tar.gz"
> >
>
> of course the source of the App in the Windows Store is available,
> including the used image, thanks for the feedback
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/WSL/-/raw/master/x64/install.tar.gz
>
Does it make "would be great" that got this thread started?
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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