kickstart installation ignores %end tags

[Jan Welker]

When installing Ubuntu using Kickstart the Kickstart interpreter does not follow the official Kickstart syntax:

"The %packages, %pre, %pre-install, %post, %onerror, and %traceback sections are all required to be closed with %end"
https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html#creating-the-kickstart-file

Ubuntu can not handle %end tags. Example:

[...]
%packages
git
%end

Results in %end being interpreted as package: "Can not find package %end"

I tested this with Ubuntu 16.04

Cheers,
Jan

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people interested in the package can find the bugs about it. You can find some hints about determining what package your bug might be about at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. You might also ask for help in the #ubuntu-bugs irc channel on Freenode.

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[Karlis (karlism)]

I also experience this issue on 18.04.1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[TURBET-DELOF (maturbet)]

I also experience this issue on 19.10