logrotate.py: improve oeqa test implementation

See bug https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13632

Autobuilder tests occasionally fail, reporting that a new logfile
could not be created. While this failure did occur multiple times, it
could not be manually reproduced. However, there are issues with the
implementation of the logrotate.py script that can be fixed. These
changes will help make the failures clearer, should they continue to
occur.

Previously, the test_2_logrotate test would, after running the
logrotate tool, use "ls -al $HOME/logrotate_dir | wc -l" to count
the number of files in the rotation directory and determine if the
rotation was successful. The test to see if there are at least three
files is problematic, because depending on the version of ls used, it
may report the target value of 3 even when there are only hidden files
in the directory, potentially reporting a pass for the test when it
should actually fail. An example with coreutils:

root@qemux86-64:~# ls -al emptydir/
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 14 19:50 .
drwx------ 3 root root 1024 Jan 14 19:50 ..
root@qemux86-64:~#

Where "total" is the number of blocks used. Compare with busybox ls:

root@qemux86-64:~# ls -al emptydir/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          1024 Jan 14 19:54 .
drwx------    3 root     root          1024 Jan 14 19:54 ..
root@qemux86-64:~#

Instead of using ls to verify that a certain number of files exists
in $HOME/logrotate_dir, the tests have been changed to rotate two
specific logs: the log for wtmp and a new logrotate_testfile created
during the second test. Both tests check that the logs are correctly
rotated into $HOME/logrotate_dir by using find and grep on the
expected filename (e.g. "wtmp" when rotated becomes "wtmp.1", so we
check to see that wtmp.1 is present in $HOME/logrotate_dir). In
addition, should the test fail, the output from logrotate -vf is
included in the test log to aid debugging. It has also been seen that
in some cases, the logrotate test fails because the /var/log/wtmp file
is not yet present. Since the objective of the test is to check the
logrotate functionality and not the presence of certain log files,
test_logrotate_wtmp uses the touch command to help ensure that the
file is present before the call to logrotate is issued.

Finally, note that while the autobuilder failures that this patch
addresses were only seen during core-image-full-cmdline tests, these
changes were successfully tested on core-image-minimal and
core-image-sato with the manual addition of logrotate and openssh-sshd
to the images.

(From OE-Core rev: b9392403e96c6d880de844b44da2c7300fcf411c)

Signed-off-by: Trevor Gamblin <trevor.gamblin@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

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