root@netkiffer:/> emerge world Calculating world dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 18) media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r3 to / /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /usr/portage/media-gfx/bootsplash/bootsplash-0.6-r3.ebuild: line 123: syntax error: unexpected end of file !!! ERROR: media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r3 failed. !!! Function , Line 1238, Exitcode 1 !!! error sourcing ebuild Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge sync 2.emerge world 3. Actual Results: emerge world stopped Expected Results: emerge bootsplash root@netkiffer:/> emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.0-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dedicated directfb doc encode esd flash foomaticdb freetype gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java joystick jpeg jpg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
please remove the /usr/portage/media-gfx/bootsplash dir from your tree, and emerge sync, again.. It seems this is a flaw in rsync more than anything. :/
Closing this as it's a temporary rsync issue and as a new version of bootsplash is now available.