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-rw-r--r--pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
index 5affc5f07..ee134547b 100644
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
@@ -1224,11 +1224,13 @@ class dblink(object):
if not islink:
writemsg_stdout("--- !sym %s %s\n" % ("sym", obj))
continue
- # Don't unlink symlinks to directories here since that can
- # remove /lib and /usr/lib symlinks.
- if statobj and stat.S_ISDIR(statobj.st_mode):
- writemsg_stdout("--- !sym %s %s\n" % ("sym", obj))
- continue
+ # Go ahead and unlink symlinks to directories here when
+ # they're actually recorded as symlinks in the contents.
+ # Normally, symlinks such as /lib -> lib64 are not recorded
+ # as symlinks in the contents of a package. If a package
+ # installs something into ${D}/lib/, it is recorded in the
+ # contents as a directory even if it happens to correspond
+ # to a symlink when it's merged to the live filesystem.
try:
os.unlink(obj)
writemsg_stdout("<<< %s %s\n" % ("sym", obj))