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provision: Add symlink creation check. 

This helps automatically detect a common issue where users try to use
the Vagrant development environment on windows without administrator
permissions, which results in errors trying to create symlinks.
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Christie Koehler 2016-11-08 15:10:46 -08:00 committed by Tim Abbott
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@ -57,6 +57,21 @@ if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(ZULIP_PATH, ".git")):
print("from GitHub, rather than using a Zulip production release tarball.")
sys.exit(1)
try:
run(["mkdir", "-p", VAR_DIR_PATH])
if os.path.exists(os.path.join(VAR_DIR_PATH, 'zulip-test-symlink')):
os.remove(os.path.join(VAR_DIR_PATH, 'zulip-test-symlink'))
os.symlink(
os.path.join(ZULIP_PATH, 'README.md'),
os.path.join(VAR_DIR_PATH, 'zulip-test-symlink')
)
os.remove(os.path.join(VAR_DIR_PATH, 'zulip-test-symlink'))
except OSError as err:
print("Error: Unable to create symlinks. Make sure you have permission to create symbolic links.")
print("See this page for more information:")
print(" http://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev-env-first-time-contributors.html#os-symlink-error")
sys.exit(1)
if platform.architecture()[0] == '64bit':
arch = 'amd64'
elif platform.architecture()[0] == '32bit':