From 575adfc3071ad4e1239ed4ff4822529458a86ec5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:26:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Do not crash if writing histfile fails with --hint-tester

It does not affect the result and only means the user does not
have any readline-history.
---
 britney.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/britney.py b/britney.py
index 049a137..83991ea 100755
--- a/britney.py
+++ b/britney.py
@@ -2475,8 +2475,10 @@ class Britney:
                     self.printuninstchange()
                 except KeyboardInterrupt:
                     continue
-
-        readline.write_history_file(histfile)
+        try:
+            readline.write_history_file(histfile)
+        except IOError, e:
+            self.__log("Could not write %s: %s" % (histfile, e), type="W")
 
     def do_hint(self, type, who, pkgvers):
         """Process hints