nomad symlink handling

[michaelw]

Nomad version

Nomad v0.6.0

Operating system and Environment details

MacOS 10.12.5 (16F73)

Issue

On the following directory tree:

tick
├── boom
│   └── example.nomad
└── tock
    └── boom -> ../../tick/boom

I am getting this error running nomad plan example.nomad (in tick/tock/boom):

Error getting job struct: Error getting jobfile from "example.nomad": source path error: stat /tmp/tick/tick/boom/example.nomad: no such file or directory

Reproduction steps

mkdir -p tick/{tock,boom}
ln -s ../../tick/boom tick/tock
cd tick/tock/boom
nomad init
nomad plan example.nomad

[dadgar]

Bug is actually in go-getter: https://github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/blob/master/detect_file.go#L35

Will work to get the fix upstreamed.

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