On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 08:48 -0700, Robert Yang wrote: > When there is a relative symlink in the layer, for example: > symA -> ../out/of/layer/file > > symA will be invalid fater copied, it would be invalid from build > time > if it points to a relative path, and would be invalid after extracted > the sdk if it points to a absolute py. Dereference symlink when copy > will fix the problem. > > Use tar rather than shutil.copytree() to copy is because: > 1) shutil.copytree(symlinks=Fasle) has bugs when dereference > symlinks: > https://bugs.python.org/issue21697 > And Ubunutu 1404 doesn't upgrade python3 to fix the problem. > > 2) shutil.copytree(symlinks=False) raises errors when there is a > invalid > symlink, and tar just prints a warning, tar is preferred here > since > the real world is unpredicatable > > 3) tar is faster than shutil.copytree() as said by oe.path.copytree()
Could we just use oe.path.copytree() here? Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
