From a659a9ce37fda1e19d4135ac1ddde5ada21de747 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ptone <preston@ptone.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 06:45:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] resolve symlinks in local files

the tar libraries choke when checking valid
filenames because they don't resolve symlinks
---
 pip/util.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/pip/util.py b/pip/util.py
index d2dae97a81c..3eb34ab1d65 100644
--- a/pip/util.py
+++ b/pip/util.py
@@ -457,6 +457,7 @@ def cache_download(target_file, temp_location, content_type):
 
 
 def unpack_file(filename, location, content_type, link):
+    filename = os.path.realpath(filename)
     if (content_type == 'application/zip'
         or filename.endswith('.zip')
         or filename.endswith('.pybundle')