Question about simplestreams and imagemetadata

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

On 06/08/13 12:03, Scott Moser wrote:
> I'll talk to be on this today. When we first did the data for azure,
> this difference was by design, as I didn't consider sure images to be
> the same product as other Ubuntu cloud images. They behaved
> differently at boot because cloud-init did not drive initial
> provisioning.

Hi Scott,

Thanks for following up.  I suppose that the images being inside the 
cloud makes their differences a non-problem...  As long as images are 
confined to a cloud, there's no reasonable way to specify e.g. an EC2 
image for an Azure VM by mistake.


> Since  we now have that fixed (at least for saucy) we can update the
> product id. ideally we'd wait to do so on precise until the SRUs have
> gone through.

What are the reasons for waiting?  Do we know of any other, 
Azure-supporting simplestreams clients that might be affected?

I'm asking because I'm not only eager to get this working, but also 
anxious about third-party code starting to rely on the current IDs 
before we change them.


Jeroen