Description of problem: Take the contents of <kickstart/> as the literal verbatim Anaconda kickstart and pass it without any changes or additions as ks= on the kernel command line. The contents should still be subject to jinja2 interpretation and customizable via jinja2 function calls and kickstart snippets, exactly like it's possible now: https://beaker-project.org/docs/user-guide/customizing-installation.html#custom-kickstart-templates This would allow us to Beaker-ize a custom kickstart, including snippets for install_* calls, /nopxe/, efibootmgr, etc., without adding any repos, installing a harness, putting misc files in various places on the installed system, etc. This proposes an extension like <kickstart param="no_template">...</kickstart> that we could use in a job XML. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Beaker 27.4 Additional info: The described functionality is not currently possible even with this in ks_meta: manual no_autopart no_networks no_addon_repos no_debug_repos no_clock_sync no_default_harness_repo no_disable_readahead no_updates_repos
Note that fixing this would render bug 1818904 irrelevant as the functionality could be easily templated within <kickstart/>.
Note that this bug may be an actual bug and not a feature request - all the documentation points to <kickstart/> being *the* template, whereas now it works like ks_append with ks_meta=manual implied. So the proper fix would be to fix <kickstart/> to fully define the kickstart and ideally remove gotchas like: with TemplateRenderingEnvironment(): if kickstart: template = template_env.from_string( "{% snippet 'install_method' %}\n" + kickstart) <---- result = template.render(restricted_context) (the user using this probably isn't a newbie and can supply the snippet call if needed) When an empty <kickstart></kickstart> is supplied, the ks= passed on kernel command line should be an empty file.
This bug is heavily used by some of the groups. However, to enable your workload I patched it so <kickstart> will suit your purpose. You just need to define ks_meta="no_ks_template" and you will get empty kickstart by default. All snippets and restricted context is available.