[PATCH 1/4] add command line option to set the platform.
Dennis Gilmore
dennis at ausil.us
Wed Aug 1 07:42:03 UTC 2012
Use case is to create images using livemedia-creator where we wont be
running on the target platform, this could be for a arm system, or
could be used to make efi bootable media on a non efi system, or any
other use case where we need to override anacondas detection of the
running system.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
---
anaconda | 4 ++++
pyanaconda/flags.py | 1 +
pyanaconda/iutil.py | 3 +++
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/anaconda b/anaconda
index fc679c9..c37dd72 100755
--- a/anaconda
+++ b/anaconda
@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ def parseOptions(argv=None, cmdline=None):
op.add_option("--kickstart", dest="ksfile")
op.add_option("--rescue", dest="rescue", action="store_true", default=False)
op.add_option("--targetarch", "rpmarch", dest="targetArch", type="string")
+ op.add_option("--targetplatform", "platform", dest="targetPlatform", type="string")
op.add_option("-m", "--method", dest="method", default=None)
op.add_option("--repo", dest="method", default=None)
@@ -803,6 +804,9 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
if opts.targetArch:
flags.targetarch = opts.targetArch
+ if opts.targetPlatform:
+ flags.platform = opts.targetPlatform
+
# set flags
flags.dmraid = opts.dmraid
flags.mpath = opts.mpath
diff --git a/pyanaconda/flags.py b/pyanaconda/flags.py
index 92584fd..7a18043 100644
--- a/pyanaconda/flags.py
+++ b/pyanaconda/flags.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ class Flags(object):
self.targetarch = None
self.useIPv4 = True
self.useIPv6 = True
+ self.platform = None
self.preexisting_x11 = False
self.noverifyssl = False
self.imageInstall = False
diff --git a/pyanaconda/iutil.py b/pyanaconda/iutil.py
index ed6d098..aef4cc6 100644
--- a/pyanaconda/iutil.py
+++ b/pyanaconda/iutil.py
@@ -627,6 +627,9 @@ def getARMMachine():
if not isARM():
return 0
+ if flags.platform:
+ return flags.platform
+
armMachine = os.uname()[2].rpartition('.' )[2]
if armMachine.startswith('arm'):
--
1.7.11.2
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