Bug 829780

Summary: RFE ability to add custom anaconda part commands in plain text to job xml
Product: [Retired] Beaker Reporter: John Brier <jbrier>
Component: schedulerAssignee: beaker-dev-list
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Version: 0.8CC: bpeck, dcallagh, ebaak, emcnabb, rjoost, stl, tools-bugs
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Description John Brier 2012-06-07 14:25:25 UTC 
Description of problem:

from http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/beaker-user-list/2012-June/msg00031.html

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I think it would be a useful feature to be able to supply your own 
Anaconda part commands in the job. As plain text, not XML. (It's been 
discussed on this list before, I think...)

Maybe we could add an attribute raw="True" meaning you want to pass the 
Anaconda commands directly instead of XML, and another attribute 
suppress_defaults="True" meaning you don't want the default root, boot, 
and swap. Then you could have:

    <partitions raw="True" suppress_defaults="True">
        part / --fstype ext4 --size=100 --grow
        ...
    </partitions>

with whatever crazy part commands you want. Then it would be up to you 
to make sure they are valid and installable
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Comment 1 Bill Peck 2012-06-07 14:33:18 UTC 
I agree with this bz 100%  Although I'm not sure we need the raw="True", I don't think it makes sense to store this in xml when we should just use kickstart language.  Basically it would always be raw, but the suppress defaults makes sense.
Comment 2 Nick Coghlan 2012-10-17 04:38:21 UTC 
Bulk reassignment of issues as Bill has moved to another team.
Comment 5 Dan Callaghan 2016-02-12 05:34:03 UTC 
This is a dupe of bug 1198881. The solution we settled on there was ks_meta="no_autopart" to suppress the Beaker-supplied autopart command, then any desired partitioning commands can be placed in a <ks_append/>.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1198881 ***