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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libalpm/remove.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/remove.c b/lib/libalpm/remove.c index 0e8b57aa..4f6d6473 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/remove.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/remove.c @@ -203,7 +203,11 @@ static void unlink_file(pmpkg_t *info, alpm_list_t *lp, pmtrans_t *trans) } } - if(_alpm_lstat(file, &buf)) { + /* we want to do a lstat here, and not a _alpm_lstat. + * if a directory in the package is actually a directory symlink on the + * filesystem, we want to work with the linked directory instead of the + * actual symlink */ + if(lstat(file, &buf)) { _alpm_log(PM_LOG_DEBUG, "file %s does not exist\n", file); return; } |