From 61f22df6327b1e6cfe2d9a62d6b1c34dc2d84a75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny van der Meulen <dmeulen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 06:51:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add symlink support to untar. (#43)

Fixes: #42

Adds support for creating symlinks when untarring ansible tarball.
---
 unarchive.go | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/unarchive.go b/unarchive.go
index 050c4b3..7f79183 100644
--- a/unarchive.go
+++ b/unarchive.go
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ func extractTgz(src, dest string) error {
 		targetPath := filepath.Join(dest, header.Name)
 
 		switch header.Typeflag {
+		case tar.TypeSymlink:
+			if err := os.Symlink(header.Linkname, targetPath); err != nil {
+				return errors.Wrap(err, "unable to create symlink from tar")
+			}
+
 		case tar.TypeDir:
 			if _, err := os.Stat(targetPath); os.IsNotExist(err) {
 				if err := os.Mkdir(targetPath, 0755); err != nil {