snapshotctl: Add a test-blank-ota command for development.
The test-blank-ota command is for iterating on changes to snapuserd or the Virtual A/B boot flow, which is normally very time consuming to test. It works by creating a partial OTA outside of update_engine, purely through SnapshotManager calls. Every partition except system is preserved. system is "updated" entirely with copy operations. The entire "OTA" takes about ten seconds. Tested on cuttlefish, but a physical device should work as long as physical partitions are flashed to both slots beforehand. The big limitation is that since update_engine does not run, there is no merge action on reboot. This can be done manually with "snapshotctl merge" however. This type of tool could be easily used in the future for quickly testing specific bugs or performance ideas in snapuserd. Bug: N/A Test: launch_cvd adb wait-for-device root adb shell snapshotctl test-blank-ota adb reboot adb wait-for-device root adb shell snapshotctl dump Change-Id: I5911440cbe14ee909905a0b0fc17da95ba4c5d68
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