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 * IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.
 * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
 * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1::gentoo  PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 -pypy -python3_5 -python3_7" 3,141 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 3,141 KiB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y

>>> Verifying ebuild manifests

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1::gentoo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/util/_async/ForkProcess.py", line 55, in _spawn
    rval = self._run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/_emerge/EbuildFetcher.py", line 242, in _run
    allow_missing_digests=allow_missing):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/fetch.py", line 524, in fetch
    if ensure_dirs(mydir, gid=dir_gid, mode=dirmode, mask=modemask):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1451, in ensure_dirs
    perms_modified = apply_permissions(dir_path, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1089, in apply_permissions
    stat_cached = _do_stat(filename, follow_links=follow_links)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1058, in _do_stat
    return os.stat(filename)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/__init__.py", line 250, in __call__
    rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs)
NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: b'/usr/portage/distfiles/'
 * Fetch failed for 'app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1', Log file:
 *  '/var/tmp/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1/temp/build.log'

>>> Failed to emerge app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1, Log file:

>>>  '/var/tmp/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1/temp/build.log'

 * Messages for package app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1:

 * Fetch failed for 'app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1', Log file:
 *  '/var/tmp/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.2-r1/temp/build.log'
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