From f5950d10c1d0107c51d98a7cdfe04ccbc321c86e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@sabayon.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:38:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [entropy.const] drop access() usage

---
 lib/entropy/const.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/entropy/const.py b/lib/entropy/const.py
index 690b81ddc..093b4a2e1 100644
--- a/lib/entropy/const.py
+++ b/lib/entropy/const.py
@@ -747,12 +747,14 @@ def const_read_entropy_release():
     if not os.path.isfile(revision_file):
         revision_file = os.path.join(etpConst['installdir'],
             'lib/entropy/revision')
-    if os.path.isfile(revision_file) and \
-        os.access(revision_file, os.R_OK):
 
+    try:
         with codecs.open(revision_file, "r", encoding=ENCODING) as rev_f:
             myrev = rev_f.readline().strip()
             etpConst['entropyversion'] = myrev
+    except (OSError, IOError) as err:
+        if err.errno != errno.ENOENT:
+            raise
 
 def const_pid_exists(pid):
     """