>>> Installing (1 of 4) dev-python/sphinx-1.1.3-r5 * checking 1133 files for package collisions 1000 files checked ... >>> Merging dev-python/sphinx-1.1.3-r5 to / * python3.2: running backup_pickle '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/sphinx-1.1.3-r5/image//usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/sphinx/pycode/Grammar3.2.pickle' -> '//usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/sphinx/pycode/Grammar3.2.pickle.backup' cp: cannot create regular file '//usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/sphinx/pycode/Grammar3.2.pickle.backup': No such file or directory * ERROR: dev-python/sphinx-1.1.3-r5 failed (preinst phase): * Unable to backup grammar pickle from overwriting * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called pkg_preinst * environment, line 2806: Called python_foreach_impl 'backup_pickle' * environment, line 3133: Called backup_pickle * environment, line 2804: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * cp -p -v "${pickle_name[0]}" "${dest}" || die "Unable to backup grammar pickle from overwriting" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -Nuv sphinx 2. 3. emerge --info '=dev-python/sphinx-1.1.3-r5' Portage 2.1.11.31 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.6.11-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.6.11-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5200+-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.8, 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::<unknown repository>, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6-r1, 1.5-r1, 1.6.3-r1, 1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 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Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Just ran into this myself. This error happens when you upgrade from an older version that did not previously install itself into one of the new PYTHON_TARGETS you have enabled. For example, if your previous sphinx install had only 2.7 and you're upgrading to 1.1.3-r5 with both 2.7 and 3.2 Python targets set you'll get this error given that sphinx was never installed in 3.2 to begin with. Simply unmerging sphinx and re-emerging fixed the issue for me: $ emerge -Ca sphinx $ emerge -va1 sphinx # remove the -1 if you explicitly installed sphinx
Good symptoms but bad diagnosis. It is just a missing directory when trying to create the backup. I have fixed it by using mkdir. Although this is not strictly necessary, it is easier and safer this way.
(In reply to comment #2) > Good symptoms but bad diagnosis. It is just a missing directory when trying > to create the backup. I have fixed it by using mkdir. Although this is not > strictly necessary, it is easier and safer this way. FWIW I don't believe it's bad diagnosis. The reason the directory is missing in the first place is because sphinx was not previously installed in a given PYTHON_TARGET. From what I can tell the purpose of the code in pkg_preinst is to back-up what's currently installed on the rootfs *before* sphinx is merged to the rootfs. If sphinx was already installed in all of the PYTHON_TARGETs before the new merge you wont get this error at all with the current 1.1.3-r5 ebuild - the Grammar*.pickle file and its parent directory (pycode) already exist in this case. If The reason the workaround of uninstalling and then reinstalling works is that the replacing_python_eclass function returns false on a fresh install given that a previous version is not being replaced and so the whole backup_pickle() business is never called on a PYTHON_TARGET that is missing a previous install of sphinx. I think a better fix than mkdir is to check whether the Grammar*.pickle file exists in the PYTHON_TARGET's site-packages in the first place before trying to back it up... Anyhow, thanks for the fix!
*** Bug 457156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
