[Fab-user] Copy file issue

[Steve Steiner]

Last night, way past my bedtime, I was trying to copy a file up using  
put().

[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] put: ./filename -> /root/.ssh/filename

Fatal error: put() encountered an exception while uploading './filename'

Underlying exception message:
    No such file

Aborting.

The actual error is that the directory /root/.ssh did not exist on the  
target system.  A missing local file is handled by a raise in  
operations.py on line 275 and that exception's not caught.

So, my question is, what is the best way to handle both of these things?

I think the exception on a missing local file should be caught in case  
we're running in --warn-only, right?

The message "No such file" doesn't really capture the essence of what  
happened but I'm not sure of where and by whom it's generated so it  
can be smartened up.

I'm less up on the fabric guts than I will be soon so if someone wants  
to point me in the right direction, I'll take a stab at making this  
more consistent with the "right" behaviour; once I know what that is,  
and have a hint as to where to find it.

Thanks,

S