Thanks. Now identifying all the downloaded Raspbian images dating back to 2012.
The hard part is figuring out on which dates images moved to 'cloudinit' or 'cloudinit-rpi'; as there's no mention in the release notes. And it's not clear to me that Imager 2.0.3 knows how to do things for various systems like setting networking which has changed considerably over the years.
I mostly wanted to be able to generate a JSON for downloaded images so am not personally worried about configuration but I know others are. I was more interested in putting images in sub-trees so I can quickly find what I want, 64-bit, 32-bit, then Lite, Desktop, Full but still battling with the JSON format and the hassles of getting Imager to reselect a changed JSON - You have to edit to an incorrect URL, accept, then change back to correct and accept again. And it forgets it when the app is closed. Took me a while to realise Imager lies when it says it can't download the JSON, when has but choked on some format issue or other.
How to deal with the two 2B variants is a PITA but at least things are sort of making sense though I am not sure I have cracked device filtering yet. With Pi 5 selected it's still allowing me to select Buster. I had forgotten how much I hate JSON. The Imager schema validator just tells me 'it's wrong' but not exactly where and it seems to be working. I'm sure I'll figure it out.
The hard part is figuring out on which dates images moved to 'cloudinit' or 'cloudinit-rpi'; as there's no mention in the release notes. And it's not clear to me that Imager 2.0.3 knows how to do things for various systems like setting networking which has changed considerably over the years.
I mostly wanted to be able to generate a JSON for downloaded images so am not personally worried about configuration but I know others are. I was more interested in putting images in sub-trees so I can quickly find what I want, 64-bit, 32-bit, then Lite, Desktop, Full but still battling with the JSON format and the hassles of getting Imager to reselect a changed JSON - You have to edit to an incorrect URL, accept, then change back to correct and accept again. And it forgets it when the app is closed. Took me a while to realise Imager lies when it says it can't download the JSON, when has but choked on some format issue or other.
How to deal with the two 2B variants is a PITA but at least things are sort of making sense though I am not sure I have cracked device filtering yet. With Pi 5 selected it's still allowing me to select Buster. I had forgotten how much I hate JSON. The Imager schema validator just tells me 'it's wrong' but not exactly where and it seems to be working. I'm sure I'll figure it out.
Statistics: Posted by hippy — Mon Dec 29, 2025 12:32 am