[issue10761] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite symlinks

[Scott Leerssen]

Scott Leerssen <sleerssen at gmail.com> added the comment:

tests that verify the bug/fix:


    def test_extractall_broken_symlinks(self):
        # Test if extractall works properly when tarfile contains symlinks
        tempdir = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "testsymlinks")
        temparchive = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "testsymlinks.tar")
        os.mkdir(tempdir)
        try:
            source_file = os.path.join(tempdir,'source')
            target_file = os.path.join(tempdir,'symlink')
            with open(source_file,'w') as f:
                f.write('something\n')
            os.symlink(source_file, target_file)
            tar = tarfile.open(temparchive,'w')
            tar.add(target_file, arcname=os.path.basename(target_file))
            tar.close()
            # remove the real file
            os.unlink(source_file)
            # Let's extract it to the location which contains the symlink
            tar = tarfile.open(temparchive,'r')
            # this should not raise OSError: [Errno 17] File exists
            try:
                tar.extractall(path=tempdir)
            except OSError:
                self.fail("extractall failed with broken symlinked files")
            finally:
                tar.close()
        finally:
            os.unlink(temparchive)
            shutil.rmtree(TEMPDIR)

    def test_extractall_hardlinks(self):
        # Test if extractall works properly when tarfile contains symlinks
        TEMPDIR = tempfile.mkdtemp()
        tempdir = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "testsymlinks")
        temparchive = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "testsymlinks.tar")
        os.mkdir(tempdir)
        try:
            source_file = os.path.join(tempdir,'source')
            target_file = os.path.join(tempdir,'symlink')
            with open(source_file,'w') as f:
                f.write('something\n')
            os.link(source_file, target_file)
            tar = tarfile.open(temparchive,'w')
            tar.add(source_file, arcname=os.path.basename(source_file))
            tar.add(target_file, arcname=os.path.basename(target_file))
            tar.close()
            # Let's extract it to the location which contains the symlink
            tar = tarfile.open(temparchive,'r')
            # this should not raise OSError: [Errno 17] File exists
            try:
                tar.extractall(path=tempdir)
            except OSError:
                self.fail("extractall failed with linked files")
            finally:
                tar.close()
        finally:
            os.unlink(temparchive)
            shutil.rmtree(TEMPDIR)

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