CRDs are not being skipped despite the skip_crds parameter

[mb-shorai]

What happened?

Hi, I'm trying to deploy Karpenter using kubernetes.helm.sh/v3.Release, where CRDs are installed as a separate chart first, and the controller is installed as a child later. Applying this configuration results in the following error, despite setting skip_crds=True:

error: Unable to continue with install: CustomResourceDefinition "ec2nodeclasses.karpenter.k8s.aws" in namespace "" exists and cannot be imported into the current release: invalid ownership metadata; annotation validation error: key "meta.helm.sh/release-name" must equal "karpenter": current value is "karpenter-crd"

However, running helm upgrade --install karpenter oci://public.ecr.aws/karpenter/karpenter --version 1.2.1 --namespace kube-system --set "settings.clusterName=smth" (both with and without --skip-crds) deploys the controller successfully. AFAIK, the same configuration also works correctly in Terraform. Am I missing something?

Example

        crds_chart = Release(
            "karpenter-crd",
            args=ReleaseArgs(
                namespace="kube-system",
                chart="oci://public.ecr.aws/karpenter/karpenter-crd",
                name="karpenter-crd",
                version="1.2.1",
            ),
            opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(parent=self),
        )

        controller_chart = Release(
            "karpenter-controller",
            args=ReleaseArgs(
                namespace="kube-system",
                chart="oci://public.ecr.aws/karpenter/karpenter-crd",
                name="karpenter",
                version="1.2.1",
                skip_crds=True,
                values={
                    "settings": {
                        "clusterName": cluster_name,
                        "settings.interruptionQueue": sqs_queue_name,
                    },
                },
            ),
            opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(parent=crds_chart),
        )

Output of pulumi about

❯ pulumi about
CLI          
Version      3.151.0
Go Version   go1.24.0
Go Compiler  gc

Plugins
KIND      NAME                   VERSION
resource  aws                    6.70.0
resource  kubernetes             4.21.1
resource  pulumi_aws_k8s         0.0.0
language  python                 3.151.0
resource  std                    1.7.3
resource  tls                    5.1.0

Host     
OS       arch
Version  "rolling"
Arch     x86_64

This project is written in python: executable='/home/max/.../pulumi/.venv/bin/python' version='3.13.2'

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User           max
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Dependencies:
NAME                   VERSION
mypy                   1.15.0
pulumi_aws_k8s         0.0.0

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[mb-shorai]

Wrong copy-pasted chart URL, sorry, my bad.