For ironic specifically, I think this is a case where we should just refactor the netutils.py to remove the netifaces use and backport as needed. The usage is kind in the grand scheme of things. -Julia On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 7:57 PM Takashi Kajinami <tkajinam@redhat.com> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:41 AM Iury Gregory <iurygregory@gmail.com> wrote:

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Thanks for looking at it Takashi!

I will bring up this topic with the ironic community during the weekly meeting (due to holidays we probably won't have a meeting on April 11, but I will add to the agenda and try to discuss in the irc with contributors)

Thanks ! Just fyi, among all the ironic repos, ironic-python-agent is the only one using the library. It's good that the core ironic is not affected, though IIUC ipa is one of the key components for baremetal provisioning so we still need a plan to handle the situation.

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Em seg., 10 de abr. de 2023 às 03:28, Takashi Kajinami < tkajinam@redhat.com> escreveu:

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Hello,

I recently (actually, this morning) noticed the netifaces library[1] was archived a while ago, because the maintenor could no longer continue Open Source contributions, unfortunately[2].

[1] https://github.com/al45tair/netifaces [2] https://github.com/al45tair/netifaces/issues/78

I quickly searched the repositories and found some projects which have netifaces in their requirements.txt . We might need to look for alternatives (or offer to maintain the project, which is always the best) before we face any problems caused by that unmaintained library.

Thank you, Takashi Kajinami

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