Fix for http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue16

git-svn-id: http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools@65946 6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/archive_util.py b/setuptools/archive_util.py
index dd9c684..cd4c3fb 100755
--- a/setuptools/archive_util.py
+++ b/setuptools/archive_util.py
@@ -189,7 +189,10 @@ def unpack_tarfile(filename, extract_dir, progress_filter=default_filter):
                     if dst:
                         if dst.endswith(os.sep):
                             dst = dst[:-1]
-                        tarobj._extract_member(member,dst)  # XXX Ugh
+                        try:
+                            tarobj._extract_member(member,dst)  # XXX Ugh
+                        except tarfile.ExtractError:
+                            pass    # chown/chmod/mkfifo/mknode/makedev failed
         return True
     finally:
         tarobj.close()
@@ -198,3 +201,5 @@ def unpack_tarfile(filename, extract_dir, progress_filter=default_filter):
 
 
 extraction_drivers = unpack_directory, unpack_zipfile, unpack_tarfile
+
+