sbofind: Helpful error message

Report error when LOCAL_OVERRIDES is missing with human friendly
message.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
index 4df2fa5..768840b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ### Fixed
 
   - Check existence of slackbuilds for all arguments in sboinstall and sboupgrade.  Thanks pghvlaans!
+  - sbofind: Give helpful error message when the LOCAL_OVERRIDES directory is missing.
 
 ## [2.9.0]
 
diff --git a/sbofind b/sbofind
index 8eca349..de94e4f 100755
--- a/sbofind
+++ b/sbofind
@@ -131,7 +131,11 @@ sub perform_search {
 		}
 	}
 	if ($config{LOCAL_OVERRIDES} ne 'FALSE') {
-		opendir(my $dh, $config{LOCAL_OVERRIDES});
+		if (! opendir(my $dh, $config{LOCAL_OVERRIDES})) {
+		  warn("could not read the configured LOCAL_OVERRIDES directory '$config{LOCAL_OVERRIDES}'.");
+		  exit 1;
+		}
+
 		while (my $dir = readdir($dh)) {
 			next if $local{$dir};
 			if ($dir =~ $search_name_re or in($dir, @names)) {