make file removal a bit more robust

Some of the file removal calls are subject to race conditions (if
something else deletes the file), so extend our remove API to have
an option to ignore ENOENT errors.  Then update a bunch of random
call sites to use this new functionality.

Change-Id: I31a9090e135452033135337a202a4fc2dbf8b63c
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/319195
Reviewed-by: Sean McAllister <smcallis@google.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com>

platform_utils.py

@@ -127,28 +127,27 @@ def rename(src, dst):
     shutil.move(src, dst)
 
 
-def remove(path):
+def remove(path, missing_ok=False):
   """Remove (delete) the file path. This is a replacement for os.remove that
   allows deleting read-only files on Windows, with support for long paths and
   for deleting directory symbolic links.
 
   Availability: Unix, Windows."""
-  if isWindows():
-    longpath = _makelongpath(path)
-    try:
-      os.remove(longpath)
-    except OSError as e:
-      if e.errno == errno.EACCES:
-        os.chmod(longpath, stat.S_IWRITE)
-        # Directory symbolic links must be deleted with 'rmdir'.
-        if islink(longpath) and isdir(longpath):
-          os.rmdir(longpath)
-        else:
-          os.remove(longpath)
+  longpath = _makelongpath(path) if isWindows() else path
+  try:
+    os.remove(longpath)
+  except OSError as e:
+    if e.errno == errno.EACCES:
+      os.chmod(longpath, stat.S_IWRITE)
+      # Directory symbolic links must be deleted with 'rmdir'.
+      if islink(longpath) and isdir(longpath):
+        os.rmdir(longpath)
       else:
-        raise
-  else:
-    os.remove(path)
+        os.remove(longpath)
+    elif missing_ok and e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
+      pass
+    else:
+      raise
 
 
 def walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None, followlinks=False):