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[Garrett Holmstrom <gholms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How is this going to work for a distro like Fedora, where the only reliable way to set a hostname persistently is to edit both /etc/hostname *and* /etc/sysconfig/network in addition to /etc/hosts?  (Yes, this is the bug I was working on earlier.  ;-)

QuotingConfigObj is going to put double-quotes around nearly everything it writes to /etc/sysconfig/network, which is going to break things on Fedora because systemd just reads everything after 'HOSTNAME=' and passes that to sethostname(2).

I recommend saying "non-persistently" instead of "temporarily", which sounds more like a state that cloud-init is going to revert before it terminates.
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