o upgrade code rebuilds the db to a tmp dir and opens that db to

  calculate the upgrade set.  When the user OKs the upgrade, the old
  db is deleted and the new rebuilt db is moved into place.
o lilo/fstab checks for testing mode.
o added a iutil.rmrf() function to recursively remove directories

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/iutil.py b/iutil.py
index a151eee28..f1f5728d2 100644
--- a/iutil.py
+++ b/iutil.py
@@ -207,3 +207,15 @@ def findtz(basepath, relpath):
         tzdata.sort()
                             
     return tzdata
+
+def rmrf (path):
+    # this is only the very simple case.
+    files = os.listdir (path)
+    for file in files:
+        if os.path.isdir(path + '/' + file):
+            rmrf (path + '/' + file)
+        else:
+            os.unlink (path + '/' + file)
+    os.rmdir (path)
+
+