The problem seems to be that the ebuild tries to acces the destination directory in the preinst phase, i.e. before it is created, see build.log for more information. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 338798 [details] build.log
Created attachment 338800 [details] emerge --info
Created attachment 338802 [details] emerge -pqv '=dev-python/sphinx-1.1.3-r5'
Please update your system before reporting bugs. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 455910 ***
Actually, I did; the last time was a few hours ago while this bug's been present since -r5 was stabilized on amd64 a few days ago, it's just that I only got around to investigating this today. The problem is, according to the portage mirror I synced today, -r6 is not stable for amd64 while -r5 is.
@Python: do we want to stablereq -r6 or just backport the patch to -r5?
@ago: please take -r6 stable. Major fixes: docutils-0.10 compat (stable), install failure on a fresh install.
Sorry for the late response; I agree that -r6 should be stabilized.
amd64 stable
x86 stable. Last arch, closing