pactest: treat symlinks with more respect

Don't call os.stat() when we should be using os.lstat(); this allows us
to actually test dead symlinks that don't have a corresponding file. Add
a new LINK_EXIST rule that complements FILE_EXIST for a similar purpose.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/test/pacman/util.py b/test/pacman/util.py
index b771a345..47fde310 100755
--- a/test/pacman/util.py
+++ b/test/pacman/util.py
@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ def getmd5sum(filename):
     """
     """
     if not os.path.isfile(filename):
-        print "file %s does not exist!" % filename
         return ""
     fd = open(filename, "rb")
     checksum = hashlib.md5()
@@ -177,9 +176,8 @@ def getmtime(filename):
     """
     """
     if not os.path.exists(filename):
-        print "path %s does not exist!" % filename
-        return 0, 0, 0
-    st = os.stat(filename)
+        return None, None, None
+    st = os.lstat(filename)
     return st[stat.ST_ATIME], st[stat.ST_MTIME], st[stat.ST_CTIME]
 
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