[DOCS]: testing failing for symbolic link

[shahzebsiddiqui]

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https://buildtest.readthedocs.io/en/devel/buildspecs/buildspec_overview.html#passing-test-based-on-symbolic-link

Issue Description

currently this test is failing

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[shahzebsiddiqui]

@prathmesh4321 looping you in. This test is failing in readthedocs container. The container image we are using is configured on https://github.com/buildtesters/buildtest/blob/devel/.readthedocs.yaml#L11 see https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config-file/v2.html#build-os for more details. The container is on dockerhub https://hub.docker.com/r/readthedocs/build/tags used for building the docs. Currently we are using ubuntu-20.04

Just doing a quick introspection when i got into container i see the following. /tmp is available. The current shell is sh so

(buildtest)  ~/Documents/github/buildtest/ [devel] docker run -it docker.io/readthedocs/build:latest  
docs@21e94dab0a03:/$ ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 4096 Jan 24  2020 /tmp
docs@21e94dab0a03:/$ echo $SHELL
/bin/sh
docs@21e94dab0a03:/$ ls -la $HOME
total 32
drwxr-xr-x  1 docs docs 4096 Jan 24  2020 .
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root 4096 Jan 24  2020 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 docs docs  220 Apr  4  2018 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 docs docs 3771 Apr  4  2018 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 16 docs docs 4096 Jan 24  2020 .conda
-rw-r--r--  1 docs docs  807 Apr  4  2018 .profile
drwxr-xr-x  1 docs docs 4096 Jan 24  2020 .pyenv
-rw-r--r--  1 docs docs  209 Jan 24  2020 .wget-hsts

Therefore we have an issue with test where .bash_profile is not going to work in readthedocs build. please refactor the test you could use .bashrc

[shahzebsiddiqui]

problem is on line https://github.com/buildtesters/buildtest/blob/devel/tutorials/test_status/is_symlink.yml#L8 and we should probably update these too https://github.com/buildtesters/buildtest/blob/devel/tutorials/test_status/is_symlink.yml#L12-L13 and name the symlink something else