699516 – QA notice for absolute symlinks pointing to paths starting with ${D}

Bug 699516 - QA notice for absolute symlinks pointing to paths starting with ${D}

Summary: QA notice for absolute symlinks pointing to paths starting with ${D}

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2019-11-07 06:53 UTC by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Modified:	2019-11-07 06:53 UTC (History)
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Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2019-11-07 06:53:48 UTC

PMS (https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/7/pms.html#x1-14800013.4.1):
"""
13.4.1 Rewriting

Any absolute symlink whose link starts with D must be rewritten with the leading D removed. The package manager should issue a notice when doing this.
"""


Portage rewrites such symbolic links, but fails to print QA notice:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/lib/portage/dbapi/vartree.py?id=f90400eedc6a8788878c050880db564800c825d2#n4877

	if self.settings and self.settings["D"]:
		if myto.startswith(self.settings["D"]):
			myto = myto[len(self.settings["D"])-1:]