[update] Fix updating via symlinks (closes #23991)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index 062b338d73d839c79c496c0103a42da6bac044f1..d1b86bd13df40676f76879e8e9ea314e1fb3c9be 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -3009,6 +3009,7 @@ __all__ = [
     'compat_os_name',
     'compat_parse_qs',
     'compat_print',
+    'compat_realpath',
     'compat_setenv',
     'compat_shlex_quote',
     'compat_shlex_split',

diff --git a/youtube_dl/update.py b/youtube_dl/update.py
index 002ea7f3386215c61bcf3bc60419d0059abf2bc2..84c9646171e0b8f8d6a6397bff5339205cdadcd7 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/update.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/update.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import subprocess
 import sys
 from zipimport import zipimporter
 
+from .compat import compat_realpath
 from .utils import encode_compat_str
 
 from .version import __version__
@@ -84,7 +85,9 @@ def update_self(to_screen, verbose, opener):
     print_notes(to_screen, versions_info['versions'])
 
     # sys.executable is set to the full pathname of the exe-file for py2exe
-    filename = sys.executable if hasattr(sys, 'frozen') else sys.argv[0]
+    # though symlinks are not followed so that we need to do this manually
+    # with help of realpath
+    filename = compat_realpath(sys.executable if hasattr(sys, 'frozen') else sys.argv[0])
 
     if not os.access(filename, os.W_OK):
         to_screen('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % filename)