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On 07/26/2016 11:27 AM, Joshua G Lock wrote:
> 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.

I didn't know the existence of that function, I tried it and it can 
replace shutil.copytree(). I'll send a v2.

>
> Regards,
>
> Joshua

Mariano Lopez