beaker-create-kickstart: Generate Anaconda kickstarts¶

Synopsis¶

Description¶

beaker-create-kickstart is used to generate customised kickstarts. Its main purpose is for testing alternative templates, template variables, and kernel options.

The generated kickstart is based off of a combination of a running/completed recipe, system, and distro tree. It can then be further modified with any of the available options. The resulting kickstart will be printed to stdout.

This command requires read access to the Beaker server configuration. Run it as root or as another user with read access to the configuration file.

Options¶

-u <username>, --user <username>¶

Used for any user related options in the kickstart (i.e root password).

-r <recipeid>, --recipe-id <recipeid>¶

Use <recipeid> as the basis of the kickstart.

-f <fqdn>, --system <fqdn>¶

This system, combined with --distro-tree-id, form the basis of the kickstart. Alternatively, --recipe-id can be used.

-d <distrotreeid>, --distro-tree-id <distrotreeid>¶

This distro tree, combined with --system, form the basis of the kickstart. Alternatively, --recipe-id can be used.

-t <directory>, --template-dir <directory>¶

Specify an additional <directory> where kickstart templates can be found. Templates in this directory will take precedence over templates in the standard template directories. The templates need to be organized in a directory hierarchy that Beaker understands, see Overriding kickstart snippets.

-m <options>, --ks-meta <options>¶

Pass <options> into the kickstart.

-p <options>, --kernel-options-post <options>¶

Pass <options> to the kernel in the %post section of the kickstart.

Exit status¶

Non-zero on error, otherwise zero.

Examples¶

Say you are developing a custom template for the timezone snippet, and you want to test the effect it will have on Beaker’s kickstarts before you put it live in /etc/beaker. Create a new directory, for example ./template-work, mirroring the structure of snippets under /etc/beaker. Your new timezone snippet would be placed in ./template-work/snippets/timezone.

This command will generate a kickstart based on an existing recipe, looking up templates from your custom directory:

beaker-create-kickstart –recipe-id 150 –template-dir ./template-work

You can generate a kickstart for the same recipe but without your custom templates, and then diff them to see what changed:

beaker-create-kickstart –recipe-id 150

You can also use this command to test the effect that install options will have for a particular system, before you set them in Beaker:

beaker-create-kickstart –user admin –system invalid.example.com

–distro-tree-id 120 –ks-meta “grubport=0x3f8 ignoredisk=–only-use=vda”