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-rw-r--r--pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py
index 000624819..2b0ebd6f4 100644
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py
@@ -643,7 +643,10 @@ class binarytree(object):
import urllib, urlparse
rmt_idx = self._new_pkgindex()
try:
- f = urllib.urlopen(urlparse.urljoin(base_url, "Packages"))
+ # urlparse.urljoin() only works correctly with recognized
+ # protocols and requires the base url to have a trailing
+ # slash, so join manually...
+ f = urllib.urlopen(base_url.rstrip("/") + "/Packages")
try:
rmt_idx.readHeader(f)
remote_timestamp = rmt_idx.header.get("TIMESTAMP", None)