update

lib/spack/spack/util/compression.py

@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ def _untar(archive_file: str, remove_archive_file: bool = False) -> str:
         Can be one of .tar(.[gz|bz2|xz|Z]) or .(tgz|tbz|tbz2|txz).
     """
     try:
-        return _py_untar(archive_file, remove_archive_file)
-    except:
         return _system_untar(archive_file, remove_archive_file)
+    except:
+        return _py_untar(archive_file, remove_archive_file)
 
 
 def _py_untar(archive_file: str, remove_archive_file: bool = False) -> str:
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def _py_untar(archive_file: str, remove_archive_file: bool = False) -> str:
         # also have other extensions (on Unix) such as tgz, tbz2, ...
         archive_file = archive_file_no_ext + "-input"
         shutil.move(archive_file_no_ext, archive_file)
-    tarfile.open(archive_file).extractall(path = outfile)
+    tarfile.open(archive_file).extractall()
     if remove_archive_file:
         # remove input file to prevent two stage
         # extractions from being treated as exploding