Bug 699516

Summary:	QA notice for absolute symlinks pointing to paths starting with ${D}
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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:]