python2.6 copystat and NFS

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

Not sure the best way to deal with this:

In python 2.6 the copystat() function (in /usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/shutil.py)
has grown an extra part

    if hasattr(os, 'chflags') and hasattr(st, 'st_flags'):
        os.chflags(dst, st.st_flags)


This causes the function to die, on NetBSD at least, if the destination is 
on NFS with
OSError: [Errno 45] Operation not supported:

because - from the chflags(2) manual page
     [EOPNOTSUPP]       The named file resides on a file system that does
                        not support file flags.


cheers
mark