id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 22681,TarArchive has_leading_dir usage bug,phpdude,nobody,"I found small bug in django.utils.archive.TarArchive.extract function. https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/archive.py#L147 There members is a list of TarInfo objects (tarfile.TarInfo), not just a list of path strings. Because of this bug django cannot recognize leading_dir in tar archives. Take a look for example startproject with tar and zip archive. {{{ (env)@dude /WWW# django-admin.py startproject -v 3 --template http://git.floraconcierge.com/flora-concierge/django-skeleton/repository/archive test14 Rendering project template files with extensions: .py Rendering project template files with filenames: Downloading http://git.floraconcierge.com/flora-concierge/django-skeleton/repository/archive Extracting /var/folders/7h/k___h29d15n7n5zxqk5l8ktw0000gn/T/django_project_template_FAMd_4_download/django-skeleton-f85cd58a98dd98bd22b56a82a35b3947ad7c7d79.tar.gz Creating /WWW/test14/django-skeleton.git/manage.py Creating /WWW/test14/django-skeleton.git/README Creating /WWW/test14/django-skeleton.git/test14/__init__.py Creating /WWW/test14/django-skeleton.git/test14/urls.py Creating /WWW/test14/django-skeleton.git/test14/wsgi.py ... }}} And example with zip archive {{{ (env)@dude /WWW# django-admin.py startproject -v 3 --template https://github.com/rdegges/django-skel/zipball/master test15 Rendering project template files with extensions: .py Rendering project template files with filenames: Downloading https://github.com/rdegges/django-skel/zipball/master Extracting /var/folders/7h/k___h29d15n7n5zxqk5l8ktw0000gn/T/django_project_template_DLsbG8_download/rdegges-django-skel-d4631bb.zip Creating /WWW/test15/.gitignore Creating /WWW/test15/fabfile.py Creating /WWW/test15/gunicorn.py.ini Creating /WWW/test15/manage.py Creating /WWW/test15/Procfile Creating /WWW/test15/README.md Creating /WWW/test15/requirements.txt Creating /WWW/test15/runtime.txt Creating /WWW/test15/wsgi.py }}} I fixed this and created pull request in github. Please aply it soon. https://github.com/django/django/pull/2701 Thank you, alex",Bug,closed,Core (Management commands),dev,Normal,fixed,"startproject, tar, template, allversions",ya@…,Ready for checkin,1,0,1,0,1,0