2 files changed, 0 insertions, 43 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
index 7d61773980..1739c84853 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
@@ -2585,11 +2585,6 @@ class DevtoolIdeSdkTests(DevtoolBase):
         i_and_d_script_path = os.path.join(
             self._workspace_scripts_dir(recipe_name), i_and_d_script)
         self.assertExists(i_and_d_script_path)
-        del_script = "delete_package_dirs_" + recipe_id
-        del_script_path = os.path.join(
-            self._workspace_scripts_dir(recipe_name), del_script)
-        self.assertExists(del_script_path)
-        runCmd(del_script_path, cwd=tempdir)
 
     def _devtool_ide_sdk_qemu(self, tempdir, qemu, recipe_name, example_exe):
         """Verify deployment and execution in Qemu system work for one recipe.
diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/ide_sdk.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/ide_sdk.py
index 65873b088d..350a8b02ca 100755
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/ide_sdk.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/ide_sdk.py
@@ -712,42 +712,6 @@ class RecipeModified:
                     binaries.append(abs_name[d_len:])
         return sorted(binaries)
 
-    def gen_delete_package_dirs(self):
-        """delete folders of package tasks
-
-        This is a workaround for and issue with recipes having their sources
-        downloaded as file://
-        This likely breaks pseudo like:
-        path mismatch [3 links]: ino 79147802 db
-        .../build/tmp/.../cmake-example/1.0/package/usr/src/debug/
-                             cmake-example/1.0-r0/oe-local-files/cpp-example-lib.cpp
-        .../build/workspace/sources/cmake-example/oe-local-files/cpp-example-lib.cpp
-        Since the files are anyway outdated lets deleted them (also from pseudo's db) to workaround this issue.
-        """
-        cmd_lines = ['#!/bin/sh']
-
-        # Set up the appropriate environment
-        newenv = dict(os.environ)
-        for varvalue in self.fakerootenv.split():
-            if '=' in varvalue:
-                splitval = varvalue.split('=', 1)
-                newenv[splitval[0]] = splitval[1]
-
-        # Replicate the environment variables from bitbake
-        for var, val in newenv.items():
-            if not RecipeModified.is_valid_shell_variable(var):
-                continue
-            cmd_lines.append('%s="%s"' % (var, val))
-            cmd_lines.append('export %s' % var)
-
-        # Delete the folders
-        pkg_dirs = ' '.join([os.path.join(self.workdir, d) for d in [
-            "package", "packages-split", "pkgdata", "sstate-install-package", "debugsources.list", "*.spec"]])
-        cmd = "%s rm -rf %s" % (self.fakerootcmd, pkg_dirs)
-        cmd_lines.append('%s || { "%s failed"; exit 1; }' % (cmd, cmd))
-
-        return self.write_script(cmd_lines, 'delete_package_dirs')
-
     def gen_deploy_target_script(self, args):
         """Generate a script which does what devtool deploy-target does
 
@@ -785,8 +749,6 @@ class RecipeModified:
         """Generate a script which does install and deploy"""
         cmd_lines = ['#!/bin/bash']
 
-        cmd_lines.append(self.gen_delete_package_dirs())
-
         # . oe-init-build-env $BUILDDIR
         # Note: Sourcing scripts with arguments requires bash
         cmd_lines.append('cd "%s" || { echo "cd %s failed"; exit 1; }' % (