From 9f9b1bca7796998d25ca802d4b5a73373cef1ec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jenny Wong <jenny.wong@ecmwf.int>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:12:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Only raise symlink failure error if target exists

---
 ecbundle/util.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ecbundle/util.py b/ecbundle/util.py
index 20b650d..26b9254 100644
--- a/ecbundle/util.py
+++ b/ecbundle/util.py
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ def symlink_force(target, link_name):
             os.remove(link_name)
             os.symlink(target_orig, link_name)
 
-    if not os.path.exists(link_name):
+    if os.path.exists(target_orig) and not os.path.exists(link_name):
         error(
             "ERROR: Failed to create valid link from {0} to {1}".format(
                 link_name, target_orig