Work around cp breakage in current from last week

Work around cp breakage in current from last week

There was a small window cp was broken. Work around this by using :>
instead of cp /dev/null. Ideally, we'd keep the cp /dev/null in the
build as a regression test, but doing so breaks people that upgraded
during the cp breakage and this is simpler than bootstrapping a
working cp since there's no good __FreeBSD_version sign posts for
that.

Suggested by: lots of people
Too stubborn for his own good: imp