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Package netifaces is not maintained anymore #140

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ader1990 opened this issue May 30, 2024 · 0 comments
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Package netifaces is not maintained anymore #140

ader1990 opened this issue May 30, 2024 · 0 comments

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Pip package netifaces is used by the dhcp implementation.
The project creator is looking for a new maintainer: al45tair/netifaces#78.

We need to either find a way to replace the netifaces implementation with a native python / windows api.
petrutlucian94 added a commit to petrutlucian94/cloudbase-init that referenced this issue Jun 3, 2024
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Drop netifaces dependency
dd45caf 
The netifaces library is no longer maintained, which is why we
need to drop this dependency.

There is only one place in which netifaces is being used, a
trivial function that retrives the mac address for a given ip
address.

Thankfully, we already have a cloudbase-init "get_adapter_addresses"
function that uses ctypes to call GetAdaptersAddresses, which
happens to be the same Windows function used by netifaces.

Worth mentioning that netifaces is the only compilable cloudbase-init
dependency that does not provide a wheel package.

Fixes: cloudbase#140
@petrutlucian94 petrutlucian94 mentioned this issue Jun 3, 2024
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Drop netifaces dependency petrutlucian94/cloudbase-init
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