when the update_md_path doesn't exist - emit a warning of some kind - rather than...

this is mostly to help jesse b/c he asked nicely

diff --git a/createrepo/__init__.py b/createrepo/__init__.py
index e2402aef9860743ef7e8ecb8f5136d089c074840..a786955cec198da4543c513062c881ed9936aefa 100644 (file)
--- a/createrepo/__init__.py
+++ b/createrepo/__init__.py
@@ -337,7 +337,11 @@ class MetaDataGenerator:
                 opts['do_stat'] = False
 
             if self.conf.update_md_path:
-                old_repo_path = os.path.normpath(self.conf.update_md_path)
+                norm_u_md_path = os.path.normpath(self.conf.update_md_path)
+                if not os.path.exists(norm_u_md_path):
+                    msg = _('Warning: could not open update_md_path: %s') %  norm_u_md_path
+                    self.callback.errorlog(msg)
+                old_repo_path = os.path.normpath(norm_u_md_path)
             else:
                 old_repo_path = self.conf.outputdir