--- /usr/portage/eclass/cvs.eclass	2013-06-17 23:01:16.000000000 -0600
+++ cvs.eclass	2013-09-20 19:20:38.588524360 -0600
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@
 
 # called from cvs_src_unpack
 cvs_fetch() {
+	has "${EAPI:-0}" 0 1 2 && ! use prefix && EPREFIX=
 
 	# Make these options local variables so that the global values are
 	# not affected by modifications in this function.
@@ -392,7 +393,7 @@
 
 			export CVS_RSH="${T}/cvs_sshwrapper"
 			cat > "${CVS_RSH}"<<EOF
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/python
 import fcntl
 import os
 import sys
@@ -436,7 +437,7 @@
 				>> "${CVS_RSH}"
 			echo "${CVS_ECLASS_STRICT_HOST_CHECKING}')" \
 				>> "${CVS_RSH}"
-			echo "os.execv('/usr/bin/ssh', newarglist)" \
+			echo "os.execv('${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/ssh', newarglist)" \
 				>> "${CVS_RSH}"
 
 			chmod a+x "${CVS_RSH}"