package: Fix file copying to preserve sparse files

We want to preserve sparse files when building the system, add the option
to tar to ensure we do this when copying files.

(From OE-Core rev: d86da5ae386a8129a966a53901de160823f4d250)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/package.bbclass b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
index 8459d39b27..a116948952 100644
--- a/meta/classes/package.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ python perform_packagecopy () {
     # Start by package population by taking a copy of the installed
     # files to operate on
     # Preserve sparse files and hard links
-    cmd = 'tar -cf - -C %s -p . | tar -xf - -C %s' % (dest, dvar)
+    cmd = 'tar -cf - -C %s -p -S . | tar -xf - -C %s' % (dest, dvar)
     subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
 
     # replace RPATHs for the nativesdk binaries, to make them relocatable