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diff --git a/pym/portage_util.py b/pym/portage_util.py
index 40bdcb9cf..cc5a566b8 100644
--- a/pym/portage_util.py
+++ b/pym/portage_util.py
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ def writemsg_stdout(mystr,noiselevel=0):
writemsg(mystr, noiselevel=noiselevel, fd=sys.stdout)
def normalize_path(mypath):
+ """
+ os.path.normpath("//foo") returns "//foo" instead of "/foo"
+ We dislike this behavior so we create our own normpath func
+ to fix it.
+ """
if mypath.startswith(os.path.sep):
# posixpath.normpath collapses 3 or more leading slashes to just 1.
return os.path.normpath(2*os.path.sep + mypath)