Somewhere between the app-editors/vim/vim-6.1-r20.ebuild assignment of VIMPATCH="390" and eclass/vim.eclass line 50, VIMPATCH becomes "vimpatch-1-300.tar.bz2" when it should of stayed as "390". As such it doesn't download. A file like /usr/portage/distfiles/vim-6.1-patches-001-vimpatch-1-300.tar.bz2.tar.bz2 is attempted to be downloaded (without much success).
looks like you have an older vim-r20 ebuild. please delete it and emerge sync again?
that help?
that worked for me
closing
Thanks - got it working - sorry for the delay too - was working this weekend.