We always want to work with the package file itself, not its target if it's a symlink. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> --- lib/libalpm/remove.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/remove.c b/lib/libalpm/remove.c index 652aa50..0b4f80c 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/remove.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/remove.c @@ -442,11 +442,7 @@ static int unlink_file(alpm_handle_t *handle, alpm_pkg_t *oldpkg, return 1; } - /* we want to do a lstat here, and not a _alpm_lstat. - * if a directory in the package is actually a directory symlink on the - * filesystem, we want to work with the linked directory instead of the - * actual symlink */ - if(lstat(file, &buf)) { + if(_alpm_lstat(file, &buf)) { _alpm_log(handle, ALPM_LOG_DEBUG, "file %s does not exist\n", file); return 1; } -- 1.8.2.1