libexec/poole: Preserve symlinks and file metadata

Preserve any symlinks and file metadata when copying files from the
source to the target directory.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libexec/poole b/libexec/poole
index ea66ccb..3735f90 100755
--- a/libexec/poole
+++ b/libexec/poole
@@ -452,6 +452,15 @@ def build(project, opts):
         print(exc)
         sys.exit(1)
 
+    def copy(src, dst):
+        if os.path.islink(src):
+            linkto = os.readlink(src)
+            if os.path.isdir(dst):
+                dst = opj(dst, os.path.basename(src))
+            os.symlink(linkto, dst)
+        else:
+            shutil.copy2(src, opj(dir_out, cwd_site))
+
     # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # regex patterns and replacements
     # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -579,7 +588,7 @@ def build(project, opts):
                 else:
                     src = opj(cwd, f)
                     try:
-                        shutil.copy(src, opj(dir_out, cwd_site))
+                        copy(src, opj(dir_out, cwd_site))
                     except OSError:
                         # some filesystems like FAT won't allow shutil.copy
                         shutil.copyfile(src, opj(dir_out, cwd_site, f))