new_path should be deleted. If it is a regular file copy works on it, but if it is

a symlink as seen on virtualbox delta package, it becomes a problem.
2009-01-20 07:42:47 +00:00
parent acb11ab50c
commit 9a17fe0ec0
1 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
@@ -337,9 +337,11 @@ class Install(AtomicOperation):
                if not os.path.exists(destdir):
                    os.makedirs(destdir)

-                if os.path.islink(old_path): 
-                    if not os.path.lexists(new_path):
-                        os.symlink(os.readlink(old_path), new_path)
+                if os.path.lexists(new_path):
+                    os.unlink(new_path)
+
+                if os.path.islink(old_path):
+                    os.symlink(os.readlink(old_path), new_path)
                else:
                    shutil.copy(old_path, new_path)