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On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 07:39 +0000, mariano.lopez@linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Mariano Lopez <mariano.lopez@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Currently when using the install functionality in the DUT without
> package
> manager, if you copy a symlink the function will fail.
> 
> These series will change the behaviour and will allow to recreate the
> symlinks in the DUT.
> 
> [YOCTO #9932]


Would oe.path.copytree() work instead of using shutil.copytree()?
copytree() was added because shutil was quite slow for our usage.

Regards,

Joshua