- minor change

osc/core.py

@@ -277,16 +277,13 @@ class Serviceinfo:
     def readProjectFile(self, apiurl, project):
         # download project wide _service file, we don't store it yet
         u = makeurl(apiurl, ['source', project, "_project", "_service"])
-        root = None
         try:
             f = http_GET(u)
             root = ET.parse(f).getroot()
+            self.read(root, True)
         except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
             if e.code != 404:
                 raise e
-        if root:
-            self.read(root, True)
-
 
     def addVerifyFile(self, serviceinfo_node, filename):
         import hashlib