populate-volatile.sh: use 'cp -a' to avoid potential problem

Previously, dead links in target directory will not be copied.
This is incorrect as dead links are not uncommon in our rootfs.
So we use '-a' option instead.

(From OE-Core rev: 742440441222e0627abbdd3eb2ee16401e8f4adf)

Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh
index 0ff0e1af7f..915b7d0b93 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ link_file() {
         if [ -L \"$2\" ]; then
                 [ \"\$(readlink -f \"$2\")\" != \"\$(readlink -f \"$1\")\" ] && { rm -f \"$2\"; ln -sf \"$1\" \"$2\"; };
         elif [ -d \"$2\" ]; then
-                for f in $2/* $2/.[^.]*; do [ -e \$f ] && cp -rf \$f $1; done;
+                cp -a $2/* $1 2>/dev/null;
+                cp -a $2/.[!.]* $1 2>/dev/null;
                 rm -rf \"$2\";
                 ln -sf \"$1\" \"$2\";
         else