The failure happens because `touch` doesn't create a file if called with the no-dereference option `-h`.
Removing `-h` from affected touch command.

Signed-off-by: Frieder Paape <frieder@konvera.io>
---
 meta/classes-recipe/image_types.bbclass | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/image_types.bbclass
index f73b4d965e..023eb87537 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/image_types.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/image_types.bbclass
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ IMAGE_CMD:cpio () {
                 ln -sf /sbin/init ${WORKDIR}/cpio_append/init
                                 touch -h -r ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/sbin/init ${WORKDIR}/cpio_append/init
             else
-                                touch -h -r ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${WORKDIR}/cpio_append/init
+                                touch -r ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${WORKDIR}/cpio_append/init
             fi
             (cd  ${WORKDIR}/cpio_append && echo ./init | cpio --reproducible -oA -H newc -F ${IMGDEPLOYDIR}/${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.cpio)
         fi
--
2.39.2 (Apple Git-143)