Scott Leerssen <[email protected]> added the comment:
here is a diff of a better fix based on the previous patch:
Index: tarfile.py
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--- tarfile.py (revision 49758)
+++ tarfile.py (working copy)
@@ -2239,12 +2239,14 @@
if hasattr(os, "symlink") and hasattr(os, "link"):
# For systems that support symbolic and hard links.
if tarinfo.issym():
- if os.path.exists(targetpath):
+ if os.path.lexists(targetpath):
os.unlink(targetpath)
os.symlink(tarinfo.linkname, targetpath)
else:
# See extract().
if os.path.exists(tarinfo._link_target):
+ if os.path.lexists(targetpath):
+ os.unlink(targetpath)
os.link(tarinfo._link_target, targetpath)
else:
self._extract_member(self._find_link_target(tarinfo),
targetpath)
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