devtool: use cp instead of shutil.copytree

Copied layers with 'cp -a' instead of calling shutil.copytree as
copytree fails to copy broken symlinks.

More pythonic fix would be to use copytree with 'ignore' parameter,
but this could slow down copying complex directory structures.

[YOCTO #8825]

(From OE-Core rev: e5b841420b9fdd33829f7665a62cd06a3017f7e6)

Signed-off-by: Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/sdk.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/sdk.py
index f08f0eee7c..47b9a7e1fc 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/sdk.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/sdk.py
@@ -128,7 +128,10 @@ def sdk_update(args, config, basepath, workspace):
         new_layers_dir = os.path.join(args.updateserver, 'layers')
         old_layers_dir = os.path.join(basepath, 'layers')
         shutil.rmtree(old_layers_dir)
-        shutil.copytree(new_layers_dir, old_layers_dir)
+        ret = subprocess.call("cp -a %s %s" % (new_layers_dir, old_layers_dir), shell=True)
+        if ret != 0:
+            logger.error("Copying %s to %s failed" % (new_layers_dir, old_layers_dir))
+            return ret
     else:
         # devtool sdk-update http://myhost/sdk
         tmpsdk_dir = '/tmp/sdk-ext'