Trixie Hints

This collection of notes discusses sdm features relative to Trixie that you might want to utilize

cloudinit and netplan

RasPiOS Trixie includes by default cloud-init and netplan

• cloud-init — If you're using sdm you don't need it
• netplan — netplan integrates with cloud-init AND network-manager to muck up our network connections
  • .nmconnection files end up in /run/NetworkManager/system-connections instead of /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
  • Some .nmconnection files don't even have indicative filenames, making things even more exciting

The disables plugin argument cloudinit will

• Remove cloud-init

• Replace NetworkManager with the stock Debian NetworkManager that does not have the netplan integration

  This works great and all your .nmconnection files end up where they should. There is a lingering question around what happens if/when Debian updates it's NetworkManager, because the plugin marks NetworkManager as held. At the moment manual steps are required to update it should there be a newer version from Debian.

Relative to the above, in addition to disables:cloudinit consider adding

network:cname=lo|ifname=lo|ctype=loopback|ipv4-static-ip=127.0.0.1/8|autoconnect=no

to your pluglist or using the

--plugin network:"cname=lo|ifname=lo|ctype=loopback|ipv4-static-ip=127.0.0.1/8|autoconnect=no"

switch on the command line. This will relocate lo.nmconnection to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections

Alternatively you can use copyfile or your own mechanism to copy a prebuilt lo.nmconnection to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections

If you'd prefer to not use sdm, here are the commands that sdm's disables:cloudinit function performs:

sudo apt remove --yes cloud-guest-utils cloud-init
sudo apt install --yes --allow-downgrades --no-install-recommends libnm0=1.52.1-1 network-manager=1.52.1-1
sudo apt-mark hold libnm0 network-manager

labwc

The script sdm-collect-labwc-config can be run on either Bookworm or Trixie to gather your changes to the labwc config files into a single directory.

When customizing your Trixie system, use --plugin labwc:labwc-config=/path/to/dir and the labwc plugin will place them properly on your Trixie system.