process.run("ar x %s %s" % (deb, file_path))
archive.extract(file_path, self.workdir)
os.chdir(cwd)
- return self.workdir + path
+ # Return complete path to extracted file. Because callers to
+ # extract_from_deb() specify 'path' with a leading slash, it is
+ # necessary to use os.path.relpath() as otherwise os.path.join()
+ # interprets it as an absolute path and drops the self.workdir part.
+ return os.path.normpath(os.path.join(self.workdir,
+ os.path.relpath(path, '/')))
def extract_from_rpm(self, rpm, path):
"""