Fix #430: edit -f fails with UnknownPackageError

- Recent external repo refactoring made `repo_for_pkg` raise an error
  when the package was not known.

- Correct behavior is to return the highest precedence repo.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/repository.py b/lib/spack/spack/repository.py
index b5df1168b6..f58cd52125 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/repository.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/repository.py
@@ -300,8 +300,11 @@ class RepoPath(object):
         for repo in self.repos:
             if spec.name in repo:
                 return repo
-        else:
-            raise UnknownPackageError(spec.name)
+
+        # If the package isn't in any repo, return the one with
+        # highest precedence.  This is for commands like `spack edit`
+        # that can operate on packages that don't exist yet.
+        return self.first_repo()
 
 
     @_autospec