Steps to reproduce: mkdir /usr/local/scripts, then emerge perl Apparently, perl's Configure script chooses to install some scripts into /usr/local/scripts instead of /usr/bin if this directory exists, then the ebuild fails within the function src_remove_dual_scripts(): mv: cannot stat `/var/tmp/paludis/dev-lang-perl-5.12.1-r1/image//usr/bin/ptar': No such file or directory
This is possibly a configure problem. Existence of /usr/share/scripts /usr/share/bin /usr/local/script /usr/local/scripts all cause this.
See also bug 13920.
Fixed again. Sorry.