Just use stat instead of lstat for config protect, so that broken symlinks are just ignored.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=4881

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/bin/dispatch-conf b/bin/dispatch-conf
index de937425c..277d6ef4b 100755
--- a/bin/dispatch-conf
+++ b/bin/dispatch-conf
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class dispatch:
         for path in config_paths.split ():
             path = portage.normalize_path(path)
             try:
-                mymode = os.lstat(path).st_mode
+                mymode = os.stat(path).st_mode
             except OSError:
                 continue
             basename = "*"
diff --git a/pym/portage_util.py b/pym/portage_util.py
index 0e6d53956..a0f8bc987 100644
--- a/pym/portage_util.py
+++ b/pym/portage_util.py
@@ -848,14 +848,9 @@ class ConfigProtect(object):
 				os.path.join(self.myroot, x.lstrip(os.path.sep)))
 			mystat = None
 			try:
-				"""Use lstat so that anything, even a broken symlink can be
-				protected."""
-				if stat.S_ISDIR(os.lstat(ppath).st_mode):
-					self._dirs.add(ppath)
-				self.protect.append(ppath)
-				"""Now use stat in case this is a symlink to a directory."""
 				if stat.S_ISDIR(os.stat(ppath).st_mode):
 					self._dirs.add(ppath)
+				self.protect.append(ppath)
 			except OSError:
 				# If it doesn't exist, there's no need to protect it.
 				pass