Revert "ebuild/repository: move repo location checks to RepoConfig"

RepoConfig objects shouldn't require existent paths as that breaks
syncing newly configured repos.

This reverts commit d67100340d4a8221de6c5183ccd8433c4047bc11.

Fixes #210.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/pkgcore/ebuild/repo_objs.py b/pkgcore/ebuild/repo_objs.py
index bfe30618..9dfec635 100644
--- a/pkgcore/ebuild/repo_objs.py
+++ b/pkgcore/ebuild/repo_objs.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ __all__ = (
 )
 
 from itertools import chain
-import os
 
 from snakeoil import compatibility, klass, mappings
 from snakeoil.caching import WeakInstMeta
@@ -21,11 +20,10 @@ from snakeoil.osutils import pjoin, listdir_files, listdir
 from snakeoil.sequences import namedtuple
 
 from pkgcore.config import ConfigHint
-from pkgcore.repository import syncable, errors
+from pkgcore.repository import syncable
 
 demandload(
     'errno',
-    'stat',
     'snakeoil.bash:BashParseError,iter_read_bash,read_dict',
     'snakeoil.fileutils:readfile,readlines_ascii',
     'snakeoil.sequences:iter_stable_unique',
@@ -360,14 +358,6 @@ class RepoConfig(syncable.tree):
         })
 
     def __init__(self, location, config_name=None, syncer=None, profiles_base='profiles'):
-        try:
-            if not stat.S_ISDIR(os.stat(location).st_mode):
-                raise errors.InitializationError(
-                    "location not a dir: %s" % (location,))
-        except OSError:
-            compatibility.raise_from(errors.InitializationError(
-                "lstat failed on location %s" % (location,)))
-
         object.__setattr__(self, 'config_name', config_name)
         object.__setattr__(self, 'location', location)
         object.__setattr__(self, 'profiles_base', pjoin(self.location, profiles_base))
diff --git a/pkgcore/ebuild/repository.py b/pkgcore/ebuild/repository.py
index 8eab0c9f..e986b8e2 100644
--- a/pkgcore/ebuild/repository.py
+++ b/pkgcore/ebuild/repository.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ __all__ = ("tree",)
 from functools import partial
 from itertools import imap, ifilterfalse
 import os
+import stat
 
 from snakeoil import klass
 from snakeoil.bash import iter_read_bash, read_dict
@@ -262,6 +263,14 @@ class _UnconfiguredTree(prototype.tree):
             repo_config = repo_objs.RepoConfig(location)
         self.config = repo_config
         self.base = self.location = location
+        try:
+            if not stat.S_ISDIR(os.stat(self.base).st_mode):
+                raise errors.InitializationError(
+                    "base not a dir: %s" % self.base)
+
+        except OSError:
+            raise_from(errors.InitializationError(
+                "lstat failed on base %s" % (self.base,)))
         self.eclass_cache = eclass_cache
 
         self.masters = masters