Commit f90be002 authored by Jannis Leidel's avatar Jannis Leidel
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Fixed #20780 -- Get rid of stale symlinks when using collectstatic. 

Thanks to John Giannelos for the initial patch.
parent 6a9ed7d4

django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py

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@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ class Command(NoArgsCommand): 
            except OSError:

                pass

            try:

                if os.path.lexists(full_path):

                    os.unlink(full_path)

                os.symlink(source_path, full_path)

            except AttributeError:

                import platform

tests/staticfiles_tests/tests.py

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@@ -694,6 +694,15 @@ class TestCollectionLinks(CollectionTestCase, TestDefaults): 
        """

        self.assertTrue(os.path.islink(os.path.join(settings.STATIC_ROOT, 'test.txt')))



    def test_broken_symlink(self):

        """

        Test broken symlink gets deleted.

        """

        path = os.path.join(settings.STATIC_ROOT, 'test.txt')

        os.unlink(path)

        self.run_collectstatic()

        self.assertTrue(os.path.islink(path))





class TestServeStatic(StaticFilesTestCase):

    """