bitbake: lib/bb/data_smart: add removeFromVar method

Tested with:

MY_VARIABLE = "foo hello foo world"
python () {
    d.removeFromVar('MY_VARIABLE', 'foo')
}

$ bitbake-getvar -r example --value MY_VARIABLE
 hello  world

(Bitbake rev: daf1ea2c066e05fa0a64e5af4a5f968efff4f976)

Signed-off-by: Talel BELHAJ SALEM <bhstalel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py
index 2e0d308588..554255f3d3 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py
@@ -714,6 +714,11 @@ class DataSmart(MutableMapping):
         self.varhistory.record(**loginfo)
         self.setVar(var + ":prepend", value, ignore=True, parsing=True)
 
+    def removeFromVar(self, var, value, **loginfo):
+        loginfo['op'] = 'remove'
+        self.varhistory.record(**loginfo)
+        self.setVar(var + ":remove", value, ignore=True, parsing=True)
+
     def delVar(self, var, **loginfo):
         self.expand_cache = {}