Add error checking to ansible-galaxy to verify the roles_path is valid

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/ansible-galaxy b/bin/ansible-galaxy
index 7598580d82..146361da93 100755
--- a/bin/ansible-galaxy
+++ b/bin/ansible-galaxy
@@ -704,6 +704,14 @@ def execute_install(args, options, parser):
         print "- please specify a user/role name, or a roles file, but not both"
         sys.exit(1)
 
+    # error checking to ensure the specified roles path exists and is a directory
+    if not os.path.exists(roles_path):
+        print "- the specified role path %s does not exist" % roles_path
+        sys.exit(1)
+    elif not os.path.isdir(roles_path):
+        print "- the specified role path %s is not a directory" % roles_path
+        sys.exit(1)
+
     roles_done = []
     if role_file:
         f = open(role_file, 'r')