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| -rw-r--r-- | Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb b/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb index 61a2a2d49..698136fcb 100644 --- a/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb +++ b/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb @@ -29,7 +29,12 @@ class Pathname if src.is_a? Array src.collect {|src| install src } else - raise "#{src} does not exist" unless File.exist? src + # if it's a symlink, don't resolve it to a file because if we are moving + # files one by one, it's likely we will break the symlink by moving what + # it points to before we move it + # and also broken symlinks are not the end of the world + raise "#{src} does not exist" unless File.symlink? src or File.exist? src + mkpath if File.symlink? src # we use the BSD mv command because FileUtils copies the target and |