From 4ecca529eb6de9fe55b6fd91fe8273685f9fc314 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:00:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Return early from NewsManager.updateItems() if the news path
 listdir call fails.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=11869
---
 pym/portage/news.py | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pym/portage/news.py b/pym/portage/news.py
index 332e05dc1..39589b55d 100644
--- a/pym/portage/news.py
+++ b/pym/portage/news.py
@@ -73,12 +73,10 @@ class NewsManager(object):
 			raise ValueError("Invalid repoID: %s" % repoid)
 
 		path = os.path.join(self.portdb.getRepositoryPath(repoid), self.news_path)
-
-		# Skip reading news for repoid if the news dir does not exist.  Requested by
-		# NightMorph :)
-		if not os.path.exists(path):
-			return None
-		news = os.listdir(path)
+		try:
+			news = os.listdir(path)
+		except OSError:
+			return
 
 		skipfile = os.path.join(self.unread_path, "news-%s.skip" % repoid)
 		skiplist = set(grabfile(skipfile))
-- 
2.26.2