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 master rev: e5b841420b9fdd33829f7665a62cd06a3017f7e6)

(From OE-Core rev: fa0424ee742a6b331f1c6462eb69fecba6dc7f86)

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 84b9f32a57..ae310489e6 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/sdk.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/sdk.py
@@ -132,7 +132,10 @@ 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'