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| -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): |