Re: Bug#1040867: bug#1040867 could be with cloud-init rather than ifupdown
On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 11:12:12PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > After reviewing the contents of /etc/network/interfaces.d/50-cloud-init containing the call to the missing route command it occurred to me that this may be an issue with cloud-init instead.
>
> it appears cloud-init adds "route ..." commands to
> /etc/network/interfaces. If so, it should also ensure net-tools is
> installed.
>
> Alternatively it could also add "ip route ..." commands instead, as
> it already Depends: iproute2.
Cloud-init is capable of generating configuration for several different
networking management systems, or in many cases isn't used to generate
any network configuration at all. So we leave the network management
out of cloud-init's dependency list intentionally. If you're generating
VM images that depend on cloud-init to generate network configuration, I
recommend installing the dependencies for the desired backend explicitly
in the images, and possibly installing cloud-init configuration to tell
it to use the particular back-end in question.
noah
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