Previously this was failing to treat symlinks to directories as unpacked
layout, because our file info was only an Lstat result, not a full Stat.
Now we'll resolve the symlink first, allowing us to handle a symlink to
a directory. That's important because our internal/providercache behavior
is to symlink from one cache to another where possible.
There's a lot going on in these functions that can be hard to follow from
the outside, so we'll add some additional trace logging so that we can
more easily understand why things are behaving the way they are.
The existing functionality in this package deals with finding packages
that are either available for installation or already installed. In order
to support installation we also need to determine the location where a
package should be installed.
This lives in the getproviders package because that way all of the logic
related to the filesystem layout for local provider directories lives
together here where they can be maintained together more easily in future.
Previously this was available by instantiating a throwaway
FilesystemMirrorSource, but that's pretty counter-intuitive for callers
that just want to do a one-off scan without retaining any ongoing state.
Now we expose SearchLocalDirectory as an exported function, and the
FilesystemMirrorSource then uses it as part of its implementation too.
Callers that just want to know what's available in a directory can call
SearchLocalDirectory directly.
Martin Atkins