Re: [yocto-patches] [wic][PATCH v2 0/4] oe/path: three fixes plus unit coverage

[Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>]

On Fri 2026-07-24 @ 04:04:55 PM, Paul Barker via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> On Fri, 2026-07-24 at 07:50 -0400, Trevor Woerner via
> lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> > This series continues the standalone unit-test work, this time over
> > oe/path.py. It follows the same shape the suite settled on: each
> > source fix is its own standalone commit, and the green test module
> > lands last, so the suite passes at every commit.
> > 
> > Three fixes come first, each independent of the others:
> > 
> >   - __realpath's isdir guard assigns a bare `false`, which is not a
> >     Python name; when os.path.isdir() raises, the handler meant to
> >     absorb the error raises NameError instead. Use the builtin False.
> >   - symlink(force=True) cleared the destination through remove(), which
> >     globs its argument; a destination containing glob metacharacters
> >     could fail to match itself or match unrelated files. Remove the
> >     literal destination instead.
> >   - canonicalize('') and canonicalize(None) returned the current
> >     working directory, because os.path.realpath('') does; a stray
> >     separator injected a spurious cwd entry too. Skip empty tokens.
> > 
> > The final commit adds tests/unit/test_oe_path.py, covering oe/path's
> > own logic (join, is_path_parent, symlink, make_relative_symlink,
> > canonicalize, which_wild, realpath) and locking in the three fixes.
> > Backing any fix out turns the matching test red. The suite is green
> > and ruff-clean, and the series passes oe-core's wic oe-selftest with
> > no regressions.
> > 
> > These same three fixes and their equivalent selftest coverage have now
> > landed in OE-core (meta/lib/oe/path.py and oeqa/selftest/liboe.py),
> > where oe/path.py originates. wic vendors a copy of that module; this
> > series keeps the vendored copy from diverging by carrying the identical
> > fixes, with the coverage expressed as wic's own pytest suite.
> > 
> > Trevor Woerner (4):
> >   oe/path: fix bare `false` NameError in __realpath's isdir guard
> >   oe/path: don't glob-expand the destination in symlink(force=True)
> >   oe/path: canonicalize('') should return '' rather than the cwd
> >   tests/unit/test_oe_path: cover oe/path's own path logic
> 
> LGTM, assuming these are direct copies of what was added to OE-core.

Almost. The 3 "fix" patches are identical, but the unit test patch is
different because wic uses pytest and oe-core uses unittest. The test
coverage and what is tested are the same between them, just expressed
differently depending on the test framework.

> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
> Paul Barker
> 
> 
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