If the upperdirs in the member file's pathname does not 
exist. tarfile creates those paths with 0777 permission 
bits and does not honor umask.

This patch uses umask to set the ti.mode of the created 
directory for later usage in chmod.

--- tarfile.py  (revision 46993)
+++ tarfile.py  (working copy)
@@ -1560,7 +1560,9 @@
             ti = TarInfo()
             ti.name  = upperdirs
             ti.type  = DIRTYPE
-            ti.mode  = 0777
+            umask = os.umask(0)
+            ti.mode  = 0777 - umask
+            os.umask(umask)
             ti.mtime = tarinfo.mtime
             ti.uid   = tarinfo.uid
             ti.gid   = tarinfo.gid