oe.path: added 'recurse' argument to remove()

This makes it possible to specify whether the equivalent of 'rm -rf' or
only this of 'rm -f' is wanted.  Due to backward compatibility it
defaults to the recursive variant.

Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
Acked-by: Chris Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/oe/path.py b/lib/oe/path.py
index f58c0138bb..3d64cfaac1 100644
--- a/lib/oe/path.py
+++ b/lib/oe/path.py
@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ def format_display(path, metadata):
     else:
         return rel
 
-def remove(path):
+def remove(path, recurse=True):
     """Equivalent to rm -f or rm -rf"""
     import os, errno, shutil
     try:
         os.unlink(path)
     except OSError, exc:
-        if exc.errno == errno.EISDIR:
+        if recurse and exc.errno == errno.EISDIR:
             shutil.rmtree(path)
         elif exc.errno != errno.ENOENT:
             raise