From 5d4530dc2511ebb8de6411d5182156b162dfb8ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:38:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't die if we can't write the timestamp.chk file.  It's not
 vital or important, just handy.

svn path=/main/branches/prefix/; revision=5381
---
 bin/emerge | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/emerge b/bin/emerge
index 49499e204..c8757c49a 100755
--- a/bin/emerge
+++ b/bin/emerge
@@ -3814,10 +3814,14 @@ def action_sync(settings, trees, mtimedb, myopts, myaction):
 				sys.exit(retval)
 
 		# write timestamp.chk
-		f = open(os.path.join(myportdir, "metadata", "timestamp.chk"), 'w')
-		f.write(time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000"), time.gmtime())
-		f.write('\n')
-		f.close()
+		try:
+			f = open(os.path.join(myportdir, "metadata", "timestamp.chk"), 'w')
+			f.write(time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000"), time.gmtime())
+			f.write('\n')
+			f.close()
+		except IOError e:
+			# too bad, next time better luck!
+			pass
 
 		dosyncuri = syncuri
 	else:
-- 
2.26.2