From 002206d4fe5bef619c0b0d448b1df1146dde9fd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Sweeting <git@nicksweeting.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 11:39:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] remove distutils in favor of shutil

---
 archivebox/index.py | 9 ++-------
 archivebox/util.py  | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/archivebox/index.py b/archivebox/index.py
index 116de5a7..c1ea5dc5 100644
--- a/archivebox/index.py
+++ b/archivebox/index.py
@@ -6,12 +6,6 @@ from string import Template
 from typing import List, Tuple, Iterator, Optional
 from dataclasses import fields
 
-try:
-    from distutils.dir_util import copy_tree
-except ImportError:
-    print('[X] Missing "distutils" python package. To install it, run:')
-    print('    pip install distutils')
-
 from schema import Link, ArchiveIndex, ArchiveResult
 from config import (
     OUTPUT_DIR,
@@ -29,6 +23,7 @@ from util import (
     ExtendedEncoder,
     enforce_types,
     TimedProgress,
+    copy_and_overwrite,
 )
 from parse import parse_links
 from links import validate_links
@@ -149,7 +144,7 @@ def write_html_links_index(out_dir: str, links: List[Link], finished: bool=False
 
     path = os.path.join(out_dir, 'index.html')
 
-    copy_tree(os.path.join(TEMPLATES_DIR, 'static'), os.path.join(out_dir, 'static'))
+    copy_and_overwrite(os.path.join(TEMPLATES_DIR, 'static'), os.path.join(out_dir, 'static'))
 
     with open(os.path.join(out_dir, 'robots.txt'), 'w+') as f:
         f.write('User-agent: *\nDisallow: /')
diff --git a/archivebox/util.py b/archivebox/util.py
index 970085ea..e6f93981 100644
--- a/archivebox/util.py
+++ b/archivebox/util.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import os
 import re
 import sys
 import time
+import shutil
 
 from json import JSONEncoder
 from typing import List, Optional, Any
@@ -604,6 +605,12 @@ def chmod_file(path: str, cwd: str='.', permissions: str=OUTPUT_PERMISSIONS, tim
         raise Exception('Failed to chmod {}/{}'.format(cwd, path))
 
 
+@enforce_types
+def copy_and_overwrite(from_path: str, to_path: str):
+    if os.path.exists(to_path):
+        shutil.rmtree(to_path)
+    shutil.copytree(from_path, to_path)
+
 @enforce_types
 def chrome_args(**options) -> List[str]:
     """helper to build up a chrome shell command with arguments"""