1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bin/spack b/bin/spack
index cd46cf6180..93263217ac 100755
--- a/bin/spack
+++ b/bin/spack
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ sys.path.insert(0, SPACK_LIB_PATH)
 SPACK_EXTERNAL_LIBS = os.path.join(SPACK_LIB_PATH, "external")
 sys.path.insert(0, SPACK_EXTERNAL_LIBS)
 
+import warnings
+# Avoid warnings when nose is installed with the python exe being used to run 
+# spack. Note this must be done after Spack's external libs directory is added 
+# to sys.path. 
+with warnings.catch_warnings():
+    warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", ".*nose was already imported")
+    import nose
+
 # Quick and dirty check to clean orphaned .pyc files left over from
 # previous revisions.  These files were present in earlier versions of
 # Spack, were removed, but shadow system modules that Spack still
@@ -132,8 +140,8 @@ def main():
 
     spack.spack_working_dir = working_dir
     if args.mock:
-        from spack.packages import PackageDB
-        spack.db = PackageDB(spack.mock_packages_path)
+        from spack.repository import RepoPath
+        spack.repo.swap(RepoPath(spack.mock_packages_path))
 
     # If the user asked for it, don't check ssl certs.
     if args.insecure: