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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/cmd/edit.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/edit.py b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/edit.py
index 6cdc3b788d..e01d50dd03 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/edit.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/edit.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def edit_package(name, repo_path, namespace):
if os.path.exists(path):
if not os.path.isfile(path):
tty.die("Something is wrong. '{0}' is not a file!".format(path))
- if not os.access(path, os.R_OK | os.W_OK):
+ if not os.access(path, os.R_OK):
tty.die("Insufficient permissions on '%s'!" % path)
else:
tty.die("No package for '{0}' was found.".format(spec.name),