It turned out that in many cases, stages need to join two absolute
paths, the pipeline tree path and the path on a booted system. However,
the standard `os.path.join()` function can't handle such situation as
just prepending the root to the subsequent paths.
Add a new helper function, which is able to join any paths together,
regardless if any of them is absolute or not. If the root is not
absolute, the result will be made absolute to the filesystem root `/`.
Signed-off-by: Tomáš Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>
New utility function to clamp all mtimes of a given path to a
certain timestamp. Clamp here means that any timestamp later
than the specified upper bound will be set to the upper bound.
Checks if one path is a child of a second one. Useful for checking if
paths defined in a manifest exist inside the tree.
Optionally checks if the target path exists.
