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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-05-19 07:56:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-05-19 07:56:24 +0000 |
| commit | e4510e633c9bcf26f6c82606f852927728cf8386 (patch) | |
| tree | c48ab307317c81d51e0103a20651e4a6f8debe06 /pym/portage/news.py | |
| parent | 9386e474d578576f0b49b5c8e7f5dc047e0236c4 (diff) | |
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Avoid permission errors when trying to lock repo_path. Note that the lock file should be mapped into /var somewhere.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=6555
Diffstat (limited to 'pym/portage/news.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | pym/portage/news.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/news.py b/pym/portage/news.py index 0bb12c5ed..327fe15f4 100644 --- a/pym/portage/news.py +++ b/pym/portage/news.py @@ -66,7 +66,12 @@ class NewsManager(object): path = os.path.join(self.portdb.getRepositoryPath(repoid), self.NEWS_PATH) newsdir_lock = None try: - newsdir_lock = lockdir(self.portdb.getRepositoryPath(repoid)) + repo_path = self.portdb.getRepositoryPath(repoid) + if os.access(os.path.dirname(repo_path), os.W_OK): + # This lock file should really be mapped into /var somewhere + # since the repo_path or it's parent directory may not even be + # writable. + newsdir_lock = lockdir(repo_path) # Skip reading news for repoid if the news dir does not exist. Requested by # NightMorph :) if not os.path.exists(path): |