[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] fetch2: handle broken symlinks in local mirror handling

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 15:20 -0700, Christopher Larson wrote:
> From: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
> 
> If a file:// mirror is being used, the fetcher will create a symlink to the
> local file. However, if the local file gets removed, that link will be dead,
> and os.path.exists() returns False in that case, so it tries and fails to
> recreate the link. Now we unlink such a dead link if it exists.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
> ---
>  lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py |    6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Merged to master, thanks.

Richard