- news bugfix from ferringb

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=9459

diff --git a/pym/portage/news.py b/pym/portage/news.py
index fe78c6d45aae7375ee0cbd9197daa837474ec65f..dd90f40d30350c1aaee3b45861bfc169f5469803 100644 (file)
--- a/pym/portage/news.py
+++ b/pym/portage/news.py
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ class NewsManager(object):
                del path
                
                path = os.path.join(self.unread_path, 'news-%s.unread' % repoid)
+               unread_lock = None
                try:
                        unread_lock = lockfile(path)
                        if not os.path.exists(path):