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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/filesystem_view.py10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/filesystem_view.py b/lib/spack/spack/filesystem_view.py
index 1b3c692958..5385ca0803 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/filesystem_view.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/filesystem_view.py
@@ -201,9 +201,13 @@ class YamlFilesystemView(FilesystemView):
# Write projections file to new view
# Not strictly necessary as the empty file is the empty
# projection but it makes sense for consistency
- mkdirp(os.path.dirname(projections_path))
- with open(projections_path, 'w') as f:
- f.write(s_yaml.dump({'projections': self.projections}))
+ try:
+ mkdirp(os.path.dirname(projections_path))
+ with open(projections_path, 'w') as f:
+ f.write(s_yaml.dump({'projections': self.projections}))
+ except OSError as e:
+ if self.projections:
+ raise e
elif not os.path.exists(projections_path):
# Write projections file to new view
mkdirp(os.path.dirname(projections_path))