add command line option to set the arm platform.

Use case is to create images using livemedia-creator where we wont be
running on the target platform.

Signed-off-by: Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/anaconda b/anaconda
index 780900dc9..ba32c7ffa 100755
--- a/anaconda
+++ b/anaconda
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ 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("--armplatform", dest="armPlatform", 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.armPlatform:
+        flags.armPlatform = opts.armPlatform
+
     # set flags
     flags.dmraid = opts.dmraid
     flags.mpath = opts.mpath
diff --git a/pyanaconda/flags.py b/pyanaconda/flags.py
index f440c4b3b..e6d7a6747 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.armPlatform = None
         self.preexisting_x11 = False
         self.noverifyssl = False
         self.imageInstall = False
diff --git a/pyanaconda/iutil.py b/pyanaconda/iutil.py
index 5f5f2a413..fd0b98565 100644
--- a/pyanaconda/iutil.py
+++ b/pyanaconda/iutil.py
@@ -646,6 +646,9 @@ def getARMMachine():
     if not isARM():
         return 0
 
+    if flags.armPlatform:
+        return flags.armPlatform
+
     armMachine = os.uname()[2].rpartition('.' )[2]
 
     if armMachine.startswith('arm'):