From 7cd6d6fb89f0dde5e77e826f41f0bc9c5b75c252 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: RomanDolejsi <roman.dolejsi@apksoft.eu>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:46:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] file: prevent replace failure when overwriting empty
 directory with hard/link (force=yes)

---
 files/file | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/files/file b/files/file
index ea47811656a..eb5cb089f9c 100644
--- a/files/file
+++ b/files/file
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ def main():
                 # try to replace atomically
                 tmppath = '/'.join([os.path.dirname(path), ".%s.%s.tmp" % (os.getpid(),time.time())])
                 try:
+                    if prev_state == 'directory' and (state == 'hard' or state == 'link'):
+                        os.rmdir(path)
                     if state == 'hard':
                         os.link(src,tmppath)
                     else: