From d7a1428d69475ad6ce8fcbdccda6cfe7e6600e53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Weigert <jw@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:26:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] avoid 404 in osc se -V caused by looking up the _history of
 nonexistant packages. Workaround for BNC#673654

---
 osc/commandline.py | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/osc/commandline.py b/osc/commandline.py
index e47e814a..ae2bd800 100644
--- a/osc/commandline.py
+++ b/osc/commandline.py
@@ -5341,10 +5341,16 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
                     result.append(package)
 
                 if opts.version and package != None:
-                    sr = get_source_rev(apiurl,project,package)
-                    v = sr.get('version')
-                    r = sr.get('rev')
-                    s = sr.get('srcmd5')
+                    try:
+                      sr = get_source_rev(apiurl,project,package)
+                      v = sr.get('version')
+                      r = sr.get('rev')
+                      s = sr.get('srcmd5')
+                    except:
+                      # avoid 404 here. 
+                      # ['search', 'package'] ['match=contains%28description%2C+%27redis%27%29']
+                      # returns packages in project 'Ports:DebianBased:Auto', which cannot be examined.
+                      pass
                     if not v or v == 'unknown': v = '-'
                     if not r: r = '-'
                     if not s: s = '-'