[OE-core] [PATCH v1] wic: Add --exclude-path option to rootfs source plugin.

[Patrick Ohly]

Hi!

Wow, that was fast :-)

On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 11:15 +0100, Kristian Amlie wrote:
> +            if os.stat(real_rootfs_dir).st_dev ==
> os.stat(cr_workdir).st_dev:
> +                # Optimization if both directories are on the same
> file system:
> +                # copy using hardlinks.
> +                cp_args = "-al"
> +            else:
> +                cp_args = "-a"
> +            exec_cmd("cp %s %s %s" % (cp_args, real_rootfs_dir,
> new_rootfs))

Not a full review (I'll leave that to Ed), just one thing which caught
my eye: when the rootfs contains xattrs, they get lost here.

Use oe.path.copyhardlinktree() instead, it also does the hardlinking
trick.

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