From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:30:54 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Make dir_get_metadata() retry if a httplib.ResponseNotReady exception
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.5~152
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f7c1449c862ddfaec19499323f6807624b05aba;p=portage.git

Make dir_get_metadata() retry if a httplib.ResponseNotReady exception
occurs. (trunk r9943)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=9944
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diff --git a/pym/getbinpkg.py b/pym/getbinpkg.py
index 861e98dd8..0f2cd501b 100644
--- a/pym/getbinpkg.py
+++ b/pym/getbinpkg.py
@@ -620,6 +620,14 @@ def dir_get_metadata(baseurl, conn=None, chunk_size=3000, verbose=1, usingcache=
 					# connection before sending a valid response".
 					conn, protocol, address, params, headers = create_conn(
 						baseurl)
+				except httplib.ResponseNotReady:
+					# With some http servers this error is known to be thrown
+					# from conn.getresponse() in make_http_request() when the
+					# remote file does not have appropriate read permissions.
+					# Maybe it's possible to recover from this exception in
+					# cases though, so retry.
+					conn, protocol, address, params, headers = create_conn(
+						baseurl)
 
 			if myid and myid[0]:
 				metadata[baseurl]["data"][x] = make_metadata_dict(myid)