[OE-core] [PATCH v3] package_rpm.bbclass: support packaging of symlinks to directories

[Patrick Ohly]

os.walk() returns symlinks to directories in the "dirs" lists, but then never
enters them by default. As a result, the old code applied neither the
directory handling (because that is active once a directory gets entered) nor
the file handling, and thus never packaged such symlinks.

The fix is simple: find such special directory entries and move them to the
"files" list. However, one has to be careful about the undefined behavior of
modifying a list while iterating over it.

This fix was required for packaging a modified base-files that created
symlinks into /usr for /sbin /lib and /sbin.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com>
---
 meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass b/meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass
index b87e634..e305e8b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass
@@ -197,6 +197,16 @@ python write_specfile () {
             if path.endswith("DEBIAN") or path.endswith("CONTROL"):
                 continue
 
+            # Treat all symlinks to directories as normal files.
+            # os.walk() lists them as directories.
+            def move_to_files(dir):
+                if os.path.islink(os.path.join(rootpath, dir)):
+                    files.append(dir)
+                    return True
+                else:
+                    return False
+            dirs[:] = [dir for dir in dirs if not move_to_files(dir)]
+
             # Directory handling can happen in two ways, either DIRFILES is not set at all
             # in which case we fall back to the older behaviour of packages owning all their
             # directories
-- 
1.8.4.5