2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/image.bbclass b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
index 286ae013f9..bf8b73a75f 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ fakeroot do_rootfs () {
         mkdir -p ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}
         mkdir -p ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}
 
-        cp -n ${COREBASE}/meta/files/deploydir_readme.txt ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/README_-_DO_NOT_DELETE_FILES_IN_THIS_DIRECTORY.txt
+        cp ${COREBASE}/meta/files/deploydir_readme.txt ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/README_-_DO_NOT_DELETE_FILES_IN_THIS_DIRECTORY.txt
 
         if [ "${USE_DEVFS}" != "1" ]; then
                 for devtable in ${@get_devtable_list(d)}; do
diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index 894ffb3970..52aea97372 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ kernel_do_deploy() {
         rm -f ${KERNEL_IMAGE_SYMLINK_NAME}.bin
         ln -sf ${KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}.bin ${KERNEL_IMAGE_SYMLINK_NAME}.bin
 
-        cp -n ${COREBASE}/meta/files/deploydir_readme.txt ${DEPLOYDIR}/README_-_DO_NOT_DELETE_FILES_IN_THIS_DIRECTORY.txt
+        cp ${COREBASE}/meta/files/deploydir_readme.txt ${DEPLOYDIR}/README_-_DO_NOT_DELETE_FILES_IN_THIS_DIRECTORY.txt
 }
 do_deploy[dirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR} ${B}"