From 96a91dcdacff053d896782f2ac9656f1c2ba082e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:34:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ignore "permission denied" errors when changing perms of news
 skipfile that happen when running with user priviledges in pretend mode

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=8202
---
 pym/portage/news.py | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pym/portage/news.py b/pym/portage/news.py
index 6f2eac2b2..b9326c94d 100644
--- a/pym/portage/news.py
+++ b/pym/portage/news.py
@@ -100,8 +100,17 @@ class NewsManager(object):
 		finally:
 			unlockfile(unread_lock)
 			write_atomic(skipfile, "\n".join(skiplist)+"\n")
-		apply_permissions(filename=skipfile, 
+		try:
+			apply_permissions(filename=skipfile, 
 				uid=int(self.config["PORTAGE_INST_UID"]), gid=portage_gid, mode=0664)
+		except OSError, e:
+			import errno
+			# skip "permission denied" errors as we're likely running in pretend mode
+			# with reduced priviledges
+			if e.errno == errno.EPERM:
+				pass
+			else:
+				raise
 
 	def getUnreadItems(self, repoid, update=False):
 		"""
-- 
2.26.2