Line 34 is missing a " on the end of the line which fouls up any ebuilds that use 'dojar' causing the emerge to complete (with some errors) but without merging any of the actual jar files I'm running portage-1.8.6 and there dosent seem to be a new portage avail in rsync.
This has been fixed in CVS. Will be part of the next Portage release. Can you release an update to 1.8.6 asap, Bevin ?
released as 1.8.6-r1