Quadlet container which sets Pod causes unwanted Pod dependency on untemplated container #27844
Description
Issue Description
If you have an [email protected] which includes Pod=example.pod (note just a basic Pod, not a template Pod) then the example-pod.service ends up with a dependency on [email protected].
Steps to reproduce the issue
Steps to reproduce the issue
- Create
example.pod, just a basic pod, nothing special - Create
[email protected]withPod=example.pod systemd daemon-reload
Note that there is no reference to [email protected] in example.pod.
Describe the results you received
systemd show example-pod.service includes:
despite [email protected] not being mentioned anywhere.
systemctl edit example-pod.service makes it clearer that example-pod.service has [email protected] and [email protected], which then get expanded to use %p for the template argument.
Describe the results you expected
The pod should not depend on the template by default, any dependency like that should have to be explicitly configured. In my case, the template parameter is not meant to be a pod, so this is causing an extra unintended service to exist.
podman info output
host:
arch: amd64
buildahVersion: 1.42.0
cgroupControllers:
- cpu
- memory
- pids
cgroupManager: systemd
cgroupVersion: v2
conmon:
package: conmon-2.1.13-2.fc43.x86_64
path: /usr/bin/conmon
version: 'conmon version 2.1.13, commit: '
cpuUtilization:
idlePercent: 93.5
systemPercent: 6.35
userPercent: 0.15
cpus: 16
databaseBackend: sqlite
distribution:
distribution: fedora
variant: coreos
version: "43"
eventLogger: journald
freeLocks: 2048
hostname: cloud
idMappings:
gidmap:
- container_id: 0
host_id: 1000
size: 1
- container_id: 1
host_id: 524288
size: 65536
uidmap:
- container_id: 0
host_id: 1000
size: 1
- container_id: 1
host_id: 524288
size: 65536
kernel: 6.17.8-300.fc43.x86_64
linkmode: dynamic
logDriver: journald
memFree: 63990198272
memTotal: 66501509120
networkBackend: netavark
networkBackendInfo:
backend: netavark
dns:
package: aardvark-dns-1.16.0-1.fc43.x86_64
path: /usr/libexec/podman/aardvark-dns
version: aardvark-dns 1.16.0
package: netavark-1.16.1-1.fc43.x86_64
path: /usr/libexec/podman/netavark
version: netavark 1.16.1
ociRuntime:
name: crun
package: crun-1.25-1.fc43.x86_64
path: /usr/bin/crun
version: |-
crun version 1.25
commit: d9a0adce065c7747ab88ea6ccc42b15a626e08e1
rundir: /run/user/1000/crun
spec: 1.0.0
+SYSTEMD +SELINUX +APPARMOR +CAP +SECCOMP +EBPF +CRIU +LIBKRUN +WASM:wasmedge +YAJL
os: linux
pasta:
executable: /usr/bin/pasta
package: passt-0^20250919.g623dbf6-1.fc43.x86_64
version: |
pasta 0^20250919.g623dbf6-1.fc43.x86_64
Copyright Red Hat
GNU General Public License, version 2 or later
<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
remoteSocket:
exists: true
path: /run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock
rootlessNetworkCmd: pasta
security:
apparmorEnabled: false
capabilities: CAP_CHOWN,CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE,CAP_FOWNER,CAP_FSETID,CAP_KILL,CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE,CAP_SETFCAP,CAP_SETGID,CAP_SETPCAP,CAP_SETUID,CAP_SYS_CHROOT
rootless: true
seccompEnabled: true
seccompProfilePath: /usr/share/containers/seccomp.json
selinuxEnabled: true
serviceIsRemote: false
slirp4netns:
executable: /usr/bin/slirp4netns
package: slirp4netns-1.3.1-3.fc43.x86_64
version: |-
slirp4netns version 1.3.1
commit: e5e368c4f5db6ae75c2fce786e31eef9da6bf236
libslirp: 4.9.1
SLIRP_CONFIG_VERSION_MAX: 6
libseccomp: 2.6.0
swapFree: 0
swapTotal: 0
uptime: 0h 18m 42.00s
variant: ""
plugins:
authorization: null
log:
- k8s-file
- none
- passthrough
- journald
network:
- bridge
- macvlan
- ipvlan
volume:
- local
registries:
search:
- registry.fedoraproject.org
- registry.access.redhat.com
- docker.io
store:
configFile: /var/home/core/.config/containers/storage.conf
containerStore:
number: 0
paused: 0
running: 0
stopped: 0
graphDriverName: overlay
graphOptions: {}
graphRoot: /var/home/core/.local/share/containers/storage
graphRootAllocated: 511305687040
graphRootUsed: 13724258304
graphStatus:
Backing Filesystem: xfs
Native Overlay Diff: "true"
Supports d_type: "true"
Supports shifting: "false"
Supports volatile: "true"
Using metacopy: "false"
imageCopyTmpDir: /var/tmp
imageStore:
number: 0
runRoot: /run/user/1000/containers
transientStore: false
volumePath: /var/home/core/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes
version:
APIVersion: 5.7.0
BuildOrigin: Fedora Project
Built: 1762819200
BuiltTime: Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 2025
GitCommit: 0370128fc8dcae93533334324ef838db8f8da8cb
GoVersion: go1.25.4 X:nodwarf5
Os: linux
OsArch: linux/amd64
Version: 5.7.0Podman in a container
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