cannot use with networking.hostFiles

[aca]

age.secrets."hosts" = { file = ./secrets/hosts.age; mode = "777"; };
networking.hostFiles = [config.age.secrets."hosts".path];

Hi,
I'm trying to use this with networking.hostFiles which creates /etc/hosts by concatenating files.
It says file is not found with agenix encrypted file. Seems like file is not decrypted while evaluating networking.hostFiles. Is there any workaround for this?

[aca]

This hack worked for me. But hope I could get some help to understand what's going on.

  system.activationScripts."homelabhosts" = ''
    cat /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.bak
    rm /etc/hosts
    cat /etc/hosts.bak "${config.age.secrets."homelabhosts".path}" >> /etc/hosts
  '';

[bytehaufen]

I currently have the same problem. I tried your way, and all is correctly written to /etc/hosts, but the added hosts are fully ignored by the system. I think the evaluation of the hosts is not done from /etc/hosts`.

Is there a workaround for that?

[bytehaufen]

My fault, the user ssh has no rights for /etc/hosts. So i added chmod 644 /etc/hosts to the activation script.

I do not like this approach, it feels so dirty.