From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:53:33 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Go ahead and unlink symlinks to directories when they're actually recorded as symlink... 
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.3~214
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64f8c4f7a2522654989008adb5be79f64f02528e;p=portage.git

Go ahead and unlink symlinks to directories when they're actually recorded as symlinks in the contents. (trunk r6860)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=6861
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diff --git a/pym/portage.py b/pym/portage.py
index fce0c27e3..09554e935 100644
--- a/pym/portage.py
+++ b/pym/portage.py
@@ -7189,11 +7189,13 @@ class dblink:
 					if not islink:
 						writemsg_stdout("--- !sym   %s %s\n" % ("sym", obj))
 						continue
-					# Don't unlink symlinks to directories here since that can
-					# remove /lib and /usr/lib symlinks.
-					if statobj and stat.S_ISDIR(statobj.st_mode):
-						writemsg_stdout("--- !sym   %s %s\n" % ("sym", obj))
-						continue
+					# Go ahead and unlink symlinks to directories here when
+					# they're actually recorded as symlinks in the contents.
+					# Normally, symlinks such as /lib -> lib64 are not recorded
+					# as symlinks in the contents of a package.  If a package
+					# installs something into ${D}/lib/, it is recorded in the
+					# contents as a directory even if it happens to correspond
+					# to a symlink when it's merged to the live filesystem.
 					try:
 						os.unlink(obj)
 						writemsg_stdout("<<<        %s %s\n" % ("sym",obj))