[issue10292] tarinfo should use relative symlinks

Benjamin Root added the comment: To clarify, the bug is resolved in py2.7 -- for the most part. I think I have come upon an edge-case where if the archived symbolic link refers to a file not contained in a subdirectory, say: "foo.txt -> foobar.txt", extracting "foo.txt" would result in an exce

[issue10292] tarinfo should use relative symlinks

Benjamin Root added the comment: What was the issue number for the python2.7 fix? I think I have hit upon this issue myself and I need to see if I need to file a new report. -- nosy: +Benjamin.Root ___ Python tracker

[issue10292] tarinfo should use relative symlinks

Lars Gustäbel added the comment: Okay, this bug has been fixed in the 2.7 series. Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode which means that there will not be a fix for it. Therefore, I close this issue. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed versions: +Python 2.6 -Python 2

[issue10292] tarinfo should use relative symlinks

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[issue10292] tarinfo should use relative symlinks

Jasper St. Pierre added the comment: Uh, I just noticed the "python2.6" in the traceback. Looks like I *was* using 2.6 because Cygwin decided to downgrade for some reason. Uh, sorry about that. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10292] tarinfo should use relative symlinks

Jasper St. Pierre added the comment: Oh man, attaching the wrong diff and getting the diff wrong. The issue I found with Python 2.7: when creating a simple link in tar: $ mkdir tar_test $ cd tar_test $ touch one $ ln -s one two $ cd .. $ tar czf tar_test.tgz tar_test It seems obvious that th

[issue10292] tarinfo should use relative symlinks

Lars Gustäbel added the comment: Apparently you were in quite a hurry when you filed this bug report. - What is the exact problem and how does it manifest itself? - Any helpful details (tracebacks, output)? - Is there a testcase or example code you can provide? - Which other tools are you talki

[issue10292] tarinfo should use relative symlinks

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[issue10292] tarinfo should use relative symlinks

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[issue10292] tarinfo should use relative symlinks

New submission from JP St. Pierre : With all the tools I've used, the target of a symlink appears to be relative to the actual symlink entry. Fix this. -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 120208 nosy: magcius priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: tarinfo should use re