diff --git a/app-admin/cloud-init/autobuild/build b/app-admin/cloud-init/autobuild/build
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index 00000000000..b81904fea1e
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+++ b/app-admin/cloud-init/autobuild/build
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+abinfo "Building cloud-init"
+
+python3 -m build --wheel --no-isolation -C--distro=aosc -C--prefix=/usr
+
+abinfo "Installing cloud-init"
+python3 -m installer --destdir="$PKGDIR" $SRCDIR/dist/*.whl
+
+abinfo "Creating necessary directories"
+
+install -vDm 644 $SRCDIR/config/cloud.cfg.d/* -t "$PKGDIR/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/"
+$SRCDIR/tools/render-template --variant aosc $SRCDIR/config/cloud.cfg.tmpl "$PKGDIR/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg"
+install -vDm 644 $SRCDIR/templates/*.tmpl -t "$PKGDIR/etc/cloud/templates/"
+install -vDm 755 $SRCDIR/tools/{ds-identify,hook-hotplug,uncloud-init,write-ssh-key-fingerprints} -t "$PKGDIR/usr/lib/$PKGNAME/"
+install -vDm 644 $SRCDIR/doc/*.txt -t "$PKGDIR/usr/share/doc/$PKGNAME/"
+install -vDm 644 $SRCDIR/doc/examples/*.txt -t "$PKGDIR/usr/share/doc/$PKGNAME/examples/"
+install -vDm 644 $SRCDIR/doc/examples/seed/* -t "$PKGDIR/usr/share/doc/$PKGNAME/examples/seed/"
+install -vDm 644 $SRCDIR/doc/man/*.1 -t "$PKGDIR/usr/share/man/man1/"
+install -vDm 655 $SRCDIR/bash_completion/$PKGNAME -t "$PKGDIR/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/"
+
+install -vDm 644 $SRCDIR/udev/*.rules -t "$PKGDIR/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/"
+install -vdm 755 "$PKGDIR/usr/lib/systemd/system"{,-generators}
+
+for _file in cloud-{config,final,init-local,init}.service; do
+    $SRCDIR/tools/render-template --variant aosc $SRCDIR/systemd/$_file.tmpl "$PKGDIR/usr/lib/systemd/system/$_file"
+done
+
+install -vDm 644 $SRCDIR/systemd/*.{service,socket,target} "$PKGDIR/usr/lib/systemd/system/"
+$SRCDIR/tools/render-template --variant aosc $SRCDIR/systemd/cloud-init-generator.tmpl "$PKGDIR/usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/cloud-init-generator"
+chmod 755 "$PKGDIR/usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/cloud-init-generator"
+install -vDm 644 $SRCDIR/systemd/disable-sshd-keygen-if-cloud-init-active.conf -t "$PKGDIR/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd-keygen@.service.d/"
diff --git a/app-admin/cloud-init/autobuild/defines b/app-admin/cloud-init/autobuild/defines
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index 00000000000..bceb190bc83
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+++ b/app-admin/cloud-init/autobuild/defines
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+PKGNAME=cloud-init
+PKGSEC=admin
+PKGDEP="python-3 python-build wheel configobj jinja2 netifaces pyserial pyyaml requests typing-extensions jsonschema jsonpatch oauthlib"
+BUILDDEP="python-installer"
+PKGDES="Cloud instance initialization"
+
+ABHOST=noarch
diff --git a/app-admin/cloud-init/spec b/app-admin/cloud-init/spec
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index 00000000000..8a896cccc9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-admin/cloud-init/spec
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+VER=24.1.4+git20240513
+SRCS="git::commit=e98cae2::https://github.com/AOSC-Tracking/cloud-init"
+CHKSUMS="SKIP"
+CHKUPDATE="anitya::id=11545"