commit 011525ee92eb1c13ad1a62d28725a840e28f8160
author Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Thu Apr 28 15:30:31 2011 +0800
committer Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> Thu Apr 28 15:30:31 2011 +0800
tree 591e0d6f8823bd6970efc227ca1c42968c47d8ad
parent bdfa2e69e22adf4d5f74f77938f5371f2cbbf241

Fix closes  issue10761: tarfile.extractall failure  when symlinked files are present.

Lib/tarfile.py

diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 47be1d4..105a758 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -2239,6 +2239,8 @@
         if hasattr(os, "symlink") and hasattr(os, "link"):
             # For systems that support symbolic and hard links.
             if tarinfo.issym():
+                if os.path.exists(targetpath):
+                    os.unlink(targetpath)
                 os.symlink(tarinfo.linkname, targetpath)
             else:
                 # See extract().