From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:05:49 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Handle permission problems when trying to cache the remote Packages file
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.7.12~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=110bcc9df3f9ad2373dec2023b7532683880373b;p=portage.git

Handle permission problems when trying to cache the remote Packages file
from a binhost. Thanks to Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> for reporting.
(trunk r14997)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.7/; revision=15013
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diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py
index cd5d0b6eb..d4039e396 100644
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py
@@ -739,10 +739,17 @@ class binarytree(object):
 			if pkgindex is rmt_idx:
 				pkgindex.modified = False # don't update the header
 				from portage.util import atomic_ofstream, ensure_dirs
-				ensure_dirs(os.path.dirname(pkgindex_file))
-				f = atomic_ofstream(pkgindex_file)
-				pkgindex.write(f)
-				f.close()
+				try:
+					ensure_dirs(os.path.dirname(pkgindex_file))
+					f = atomic_ofstream(pkgindex_file)
+					pkgindex.write(f)
+					f.close()
+				except PortageException:
+					if os.access(os.path.join(
+						self.settings["ROOT"], CACHE_PATH), os.W_OK):
+						raise
+					# The current user doesn't have permission to cache the
+					# file, but that's alright.
 			if pkgindex:
 				self._remotepkgs = {}
 				for d in pkgindex.packages: