Use cp(1) instead of shutil.copytree, to deal with real data.

copytree failed on Unix sockets.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/seivot b/seivot
index df9388f..d986fbf 100755
--- a/seivot
+++ b/seivot
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ class Seivot(cliapp.Application):
         if self.settings['use-existing']:
             if os.path.exists(self.live_data):
                 shutil.rmtree(self.live_data)
-            shutil.copytree(self.settings['use-existing'], self.live_data,
-                            symlinks=True)
+            self.runcmd(['cp', '-a', self.settings['use-existing'], 
+                         self.live_data])
             amount = self.file_sizes(self.live_data)
         else:
             amount = self.settings['initial-data']