From 08ce2332b85234bcedb9f5ba1d49c4987bea7db3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: necoro <>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:33:07 +0000
Subject: now considering non-existing files in /etc/portage

---
 portato/backend/flags.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'portato/backend/flags.py')

diff --git a/portato/backend/flags.py b/portato/backend/flags.py
index d43f567..9cd061a 100644
--- a/portato/backend/flags.py
+++ b/portato/backend/flags.py
@@ -95,8 +95,11 @@ def grep (pkg, path):
 	if not isinstance(pkg, package.Package):
 		pkg = system.new_package(pkg) # assume it is a cpv or a gentoolkit.Package
 
-	command = "egrep -x -n -r -H '^[<>!=~]{0,2}%s(-[0-9].*)?[[:space:]]?.*$' %s" # %s is replaced in the next line ;)
-	return Popen((command % (pkg.get_cp(), path)), shell = True, stdout = PIPE).communicate()[0].splitlines()
+	if os.path.exists(path):
+		command = "egrep -x -n -r -H '^[<>!=~]{0,2}%s(-[0-9].*)?[[:space:]]?.*$' %s" # %s is replaced in the next line ;)
+		return Popen((command % (pkg.get_cp(), path)), shell = True, stdout = PIPE).communicate()[0].splitlines()
+	else:
+		return []
 
 def get_data(pkg, path):
 	"""This splits up the data of L{grep} and builds tuples in the format (file,line,criterion,list_of_flags).
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