Otherwise, symlinks to non-removable files will be logged as unable to
be removed.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Gonzalez <rym...@gmail.com>
---
 lib/libalpm/remove.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/remove.c b/lib/libalpm/remove.c
index 9030bfee..bb980e7d 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/remove.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/remove.c
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static int can_remove_file(alpm_handle_t *handle, const 
alpm_file_t *file)
 
        /* If we fail write permissions due to a read-only filesystem, abort.
         * Assume all other possible failures are covered somewhere else */
-       if(_alpm_access(handle, NULL, filepath, W_OK) == -1) {
+       if(_alpm_access_flags(handle, NULL, filepath, W_OK, 
AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) == -1) {
                if(errno != EACCES && errno != ETXTBSY && access(filepath, 
F_OK) == 0) {
                        /* only return failure if the file ACTUALLY exists and 
we can't write to
                         * it - ignore "chmod -w" simple permission failures */
-- 
2.23.0

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