New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com>:
tarfile.extractall overwrites normal files and directories, yet it fails to
overwrite symlinks:
[..]
tf.extractall()
File "/opt/ActivePython-2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2046, in
extractall
self.extract(tarinfo, path)
File "/opt/ActivePython-2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2083, in extract
self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name))
File "/opt/ActivePython-2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2167, in
_extract_member
self.makelink(tarinfo, targetpath)
File "/opt/ActivePython-2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2243, in makelink
os.symlink(tarinfo.linkname, targetpath)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists
To reproduce, use a .tar.gz file containing relative (i.e., in the same
directory) symlinks.
Perhaps it should delete `targetpath` before attempting to create a symlink.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 124523
nosy: srid
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite symlinks
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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