[PATCH v2 4/6] tests/boot_linux_console: add extract_from_rpm method

[Liam Merwick]

Add a method to extract a specified file from an RPM to the test's
working directory and return the path to the extracted file.

Signed-off-by: Liam Merwick <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
---
 tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py 
b/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
index e9375590bc1c..6a473363a122 100644
--- a/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
+++ b/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
@@ -51,6 +51,22 @@ class BootLinuxConsole(Test):
         os.chdir(cwd)
         return self.workdir + path
 
+    def extract_from_rpm(self, rpm, path):
+        """
+        Extracts a file from an RPM package into the test workdir.
+
+        :param rpm: path to the rpm archive
+        :param path: path within the rpm archive of the file to be extracted
+                     needs to be a relative path (starting with './') because
+                     cpio(1), which is used to extract the file, expects that.
+        :returns: path of the extracted file
+        """
+        cwd = os.getcwd()
+        os.chdir(self.workdir)
+        process.run("rpm2cpio %s | cpio -id %s" % (rpm, path), shell=True)
+        os.chdir(cwd)
+        return os.path.normpath(os.path.join(self.workdir, path))
+
     def do_test_x86_64_machine(self):
         """
         Common routine to boot an x86_64 guest.
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