Olivier Fisette

Digging into this issue a bit more, it seems that the cause is that our EasyBuild files are accessed through CVMFS, which puts a large number of xattrs on files....

I guess an option would be to use Bart’s approach but convert exceptions raised by `copystat` to warnings.

@boegel The `copy2` function definitely raises exceptions when trying to copy metadata, contradicting the doc: ``` >>> from shutil import copy2 >>> copy2("/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/site-packages/easybuild-easyblocks/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/cmakemake.py", "/mnt/testfs/tmp/") Traceback (most recent call last): File...