Make installing kernels work properly
Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
git-svn-id: http://test.kernel.org/svn/autotest/trunk@270 592f7852-d20e-0410-864c-8624ca9c26a4
diff --git a/bin/autotest_utils.py b/bin/autotest_utils.py
index 407d16e..9f9fcd4 100755
--- a/bin/autotest_utils.py
+++ b/bin/autotest_utils.py
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@
return shutil.copyfile(src, dest)
+def force_link(src, dest):
+ """Link src to dest, overwriting it if it exists"""
+ return system("ln -sf %s %s" % (src, dest))
+
+
def file_contains_pattern(file, pattern):
"""Return true if file contains the specified egrep pattern"""
if not os.path.isfile(file):
@@ -240,6 +245,14 @@
return arch
+def get_file_arch(filename):
+ # -L means follow symlinks
+ file_data = system_output('file -L ' + filename)
+ if file_data.count('80386'):
+ return 'i386'
+ return None
+
+
def kernelexpand(kernel):
# if not (kernel.startswith('http://') or kernel.startswith('ftp://') or os.path.isfile(kernel)):
if kernel.find('/') < 0: # contains no path.
