wic: Update pseudo db when excluding content from rootfs

To exclude content from the rootfs, wic makes a copy (using hardlinks if
possible) of the rootfs directory and associated pseudo db, then removes
files & directories as needed. However if these files and directories
are removed using the python functions os.remove and shutil.rmtree, the
copied pseudo db will not be updated correctly. For files copied from
the original rootfs, if hardlinks were used successfully when copying
the rootfs this should mean that the relevant inodes can't be reused and
so the risk of pseudo aborts should be avoided. However, this logic
doesn't apply for directories (as they can't be hardlinked) or for files
added via the '--include-path' argument (as they weren't present in the
original rootfs) and so there remains some risk of inodes being reused
and the pseudo db becoming corrupted.

To fix this, use the 'rm' command under pseudo when removing files &
directories from the copied rootfs to ensure that the copied pseudo db
is updated.

(From OE-Core rev: d5db7e268947f0392c2126137571a44acd29ccd6)

Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <pbarker@konsulko.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

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