When using the feature to install a package in the DUT without a package manager, if the package to be installed contains a symlink, the extraction will fail.
Sent patches to the mailing list: http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-July/124316.html
This has been solved in commits: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=65459f5b6d39f9fb2cdf66ba4f01b7889e41df16 http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=37f1e0c154cf542dee2af143760730b53b749d61