From bda2e68c8849e23899b3dad9e436c06303254943 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 02:01:01 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-12800: tarfile: Restore fix from 011525ee9 (GH-21409)

Restore fix from 011525ee92eb1c13ad1a62d28725a840e28f8160.
(cherry picked from commit 4fedd7123eaf147edd55eabbbd72e0bcc8368e47)

Co-authored-by: Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>
---
 Lib/tarfile.py                                              | 3 +++
 Lib/test/test_tarfile.py                                    | 6 +++---
 .../next/Library/2020-07-09-11-32-28.bpo-12800.fNgWwx.rst   | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-09-11-32-28.bpo-12800.fNgWwx.rst

diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 39f63b9cfc1..30150ec6cca 100755
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -2228,6 +2228,9 @@ class TarFile(object):
         try:
             # For systems that support symbolic and hard links.
             if tarinfo.issym():
+                if os.path.lexists(targetpath):
+                    # Avoid FileExistsError on following os.symlink.
+                    os.unlink(targetpath)
                 os.symlink(tarinfo.linkname, targetpath)
             else:
                 # See extract().
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index be717e31570..bee00c56d61 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -1314,10 +1314,10 @@ class WriteTest(WriteTestBase, unittest.TestCase):
                 f.write('something\n')
             os.symlink(source_file, target_file)
             with tarfile.open(temparchive, 'w') as tar:
-                tar.add(source_file)
-                tar.add(target_file)
+                tar.add(source_file, arcname="source")
+                tar.add(target_file, arcname="symlink")
             # Let's extract it to the location which contains the symlink
-            with tarfile.open(temparchive) as tar:
+            with tarfile.open(temparchive, errorlevel=2) as tar:
                 # this should not raise OSError: [Errno 17] File exists
                 try:
                     tar.extractall(path=tempdir)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-09-11-32-28.bpo-12800.fNgWwx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-09-11-32-28.bpo-12800.fNgWwx.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fdd7c5e74f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-09-11-32-28.bpo-12800.fNgWwx.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Extracting a symlink from a tarball should succeed and overwrite the symlink
+if it already exists. The fix is to remove the existing file or symlink
+before extraction. Based on patch by Chris AtLee, Jeffrey Kintscher, and
+Senthil Kumaran.