cve-check: move update_symlinks to a library

Move the function to a library, it could be useful in other places.

(From OE-Core rev: c8a0e7ecee15985f7eed10ce9c86c48a77c5b7c5)

Signed-off-by: Marta Rybczynska <marta.rybczynska@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit debd37abcdde8788761ebdb4a05bc61f7394cbb8)
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Marta Rybczynska
2022-06-03 10:58:27 +02:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent 42bb9689a0
commit 6cf824520a
2 changed files with 13 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -79,3 +79,13 @@ def cve_check_merge_jsons(output, data):
return
output["package"].append(data["package"][0])
def update_symlinks(target_path, link_path):
"""
Update a symbolic link link_path to point to target_path.
Remove the link and recreate it if exist and is different.
"""
if link_path != target_path and os.path.exists(target_path):
if os.path.exists(os.path.realpath(link_path)):
os.remove(link_path)
os.symlink(os.path.basename(target_path), link_path)