Answers.Body: <p>This file also causes an error in Drupal Backup and Migrate.   Deleting the link solved the problem but it will likely recur if future upgrades include the link, I presume</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I tested those two downloads, and found:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The two tar.gz files are identical (MD5=<code>26e2db3c52d105659acc293cc2ffc74c</code> for civicrm-4.7.22-drupal.tar.gz)</li>
  <li>Yes, there's an invalid symlink in the file.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>That "bad" symlink might offend some tools (and might trigger anti-virus warnings) but it's harmless and should not affect the CiviCRM files you've downloaded. It links a README in one of our packages from that package's docs dir to the package root, and we strip that docs folder out of the code we ship.</p>
  
  <p>I have opened an issue (<a href="https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-20884" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CRM-20884</a>) &amp; submitted a small fix (<a href="https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/10676" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PR10676</a>) to resolve that missing symlink in some upcoming release.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for raising this! You did the right thing to question what you were seeing. FWIW, I recommend downloading from <a href="https://civicrm.org/download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://civicrm.org/download</a> in favour of SourceForge.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Yes, it looks like it extracted everything but the offending symlink.  I went ahead and installed as is.  Thanks.
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Body: <p>Trying to upgrade civicrm for drupal to 4.7.22 on a linux machine.  I've tried downloading the file from both the civicrm.org site and sourcefourge.  Get the following error when extracting:</p>
  
  <p>tar -xzf civicrm-4.7.22-drupal.tar.gz</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>tar: civicrm/vendor/pear/net_smtp/README.rst: Cannot create symlink to
    `docs/guide.txt': No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure
    status due to previous errors</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I then extracted using 7-zip on a windows 10 machine, hoping to ftp the folder up directly, but not all the folders are there.  </p>
  
  <p>The sourceforge extracted civicrm folder is different from the one I downloaded from the civicrm site (using beyond compare).  I'm not confident installing either one.</p>
  
Tags: <drupal><upgrade><error>
Title: Can't extract latest civicrm-4.7.22-drupal.tar.gz to install
ThreadText: # Can't extract latest civicrm-4.7.22-drupal.tar.gz to install
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-07-16)
  
  Trying to upgrade civicrm for drupal to 4.7.22 on a linux machine. I've tried downloading the file from both the civicrm.org site and sourcefourge. Get the following error when extracting:
  
  tar -xzf civicrm-4.7.22-drupal.tar.gz
  
  > tar: civicrm/vendor/pear/net\_smtp/README.rst: Cannot create symlink to
  > `docs/guide.txt': No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure
  > status due to previous errors
  
  I then extracted using 7-zip on a windows 10 machine, hoping to ftp the folder up directly, but not all the folders are there.
  
  The sourceforge extracted civicrm folder is different from the one I downloaded from the civicrm site (using beyond compare). I'm not confident installing either one.
  
  **Tags:** drupal, upgrade, error
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-07-16. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  I tested those two downloads, and found:
  
  * The two tar.gz files are identical (MD5=`26e2db3c52d105659acc293cc2ffc74c` for civicrm-4.7.22-drupal.tar.gz)
  * Yes, there's an invalid symlink in the file.
  
  That "bad" symlink might offend some tools (and might trigger anti-virus warnings) but it's harmless and should not affect the CiviCRM files you've downloaded. It links a README in one of our packages from that package's docs dir to the package root, and we strip that docs folder out of the code we ship.
  
  I have opened an issue ([CRM-20884](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-20884)) & submitted a small fix ([PR10676](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/10676)) to resolve that missing symlink in some upcoming release.
  
  Thanks for raising this! You did the right thing to question what you were seeing. FWIW, I recommend downloading from <https://civicrm.org/download> in favour of SourceForge.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Yes, it looks like it extracted everything but the offending symlink.  I went ahead and installed as is.  Thanks.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-07-18. Score: 1
  
  This file also causes an error in Drupal Backup and Migrate. Deleting the link solved the problem but it will likely recur if future upgrades include the link, I presume
  
  
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