repoman: test symlinked repo path

diff --git a/pym/portage/tests/repoman/test_simple.py b/pym/portage/tests/repoman/test_simple.py
index 27e7d0e6d4f0c0e81f541cb0e46d63eeba02947b..7717f367823583394797c63b08b81cb051accde1 100644 (file)
--- a/pym/portage/tests/repoman/test_simple.py
+++ b/pym/portage/tests/repoman/test_simple.py
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ class SimpleRepomanTestCase(TestCase):
                playground = ResolverPlayground(ebuilds=ebuilds)
                settings = playground.settings
                eprefix = settings["EPREFIX"]
+               eroot = settings["EROOT"]
                distdir = os.path.join(eprefix, "distdir")
                portdir = settings["PORTDIR"]
                profiles_dir = os.path.join(portdir, "profiles")
@@ -139,11 +140,15 @@ class SimpleRepomanTestCase(TestCase):
                        for cp, xml_data in metadata_xml_files:
                                with open(os.path.join(portdir, cp, "metadata.xml"), 'w') as f:
                                        f.write(playground.metadata_xml_template % xml_data)
+                       # Use a symlink to portdir, in order to trigger bugs
+                       # involving cannonical vs. non-canonical paths.
+                       portdir_symlink = os.path.join(eroot, "portdir_symlink")
+                       os.symlink(portdir, portdir_symlink)
                        # repoman checks metadata.dtd for recent CTIME, so copy the file in
                        # order to ensure that the CTIME is current
                        shutil.copyfile(metadata_dtd, os.path.join(distdir, "metadata.dtd"))
                        for cwd in ("", "dev-libs", "dev-libs/A", "dev-libs/B"):
-                               abs_cwd = os.path.join(portdir, cwd)
+                               abs_cwd = os.path.join(portdir_symlink, cwd)
                                proc = subprocess.Popen([portage._python_interpreter, "-Wd",
                                        os.path.join(PORTAGE_BIN_PATH, "repoman"), "full"],
                                        cwd=abs_cwd, env=env, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)