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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/database.py4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/database.py b/lib/spack/spack/database.py
index bfe98cd4a0..ea4d705869 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/database.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/database.py
@@ -1033,9 +1033,7 @@ class Database(object):
self._read_from_file(self._index_path)
return
elif self.is_upstream:
- raise UpstreamDatabaseLockingError(
- "No database index file is present, and upstream"
- " databases cannot generate an index file")
+ tty.warn('upstream not found: {0}'.format(self._index_path))
def _add(
self,