module-build installs nothing but the readmes: (it's the same for the 0.26* versions) # emerge module-build Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-perl/module-build-0.28 to / >>> checking ebuild checksums ;-) >>> checking auxfile checksums ;-) >>> checking miscfile checksums ;-) >>> checking Module-Build-0.28.tar.gz ;-) >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking Module-Build-0.28.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/module-build-0.28/work >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/module-build-0.28/work/Module-Build-0.28 ... >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-perl/module-build-0.28 >>> Install module-build-0.28 into /var/tmp/portage/module-build-0.28/image/ category dev-perl >>> Completed installing module-build-0.28 into /var/tmp/portage/module-build-0.28/image/ man: >>> Merging dev-perl/module-build-0.28 to / --- /usr/ --- /usr/share/ --- /usr/share/doc/ --- /usr/share/doc/module-build-0.28/ >>> /usr/share/doc/module-build-0.28/README.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/module-build-0.28/MANIFEST.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/module-build-0.28/Changes.gz --- /usr/share/perl/ --- /usr/share/perl/gentoo-pods/ --- /usr/share/perl/gentoo-pods/5.8.8/ >>> Safely unmerging already-installed instance... --- !mtime obj /usr/share/doc/module-build-0.28/README.gz --- !mtime obj /usr/share/doc/module-build-0.28/MANIFEST.gz --- !mtime obj /usr/share/doc/module-build-0.28/Changes.gz --- !empty dir /usr/share/perl/gentoo-pods/5.8.8 --- !empty dir /usr/share/perl/gentoo-pods --- !empty dir /usr/share/perl --- !empty dir /usr/share/doc/module-build-0.28 --- !empty dir /usr/share/doc --- !empty dir /usr/share --- !empty dir /usr >>> Original instance of package unmerged safely. * Man pages are not installed for most modules now. * Please use perldoc instead. >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... >>> dev-perl/module-build-0.28 merged. >>> No packages selected for removal by clean. >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.4.21-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/catalyst-portage" SYNC="rsync://rudi.elche/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dri eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 imap imlib innodb ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection session spell spl sqlite ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xml xmms xorg zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
emerge --sync - patched eclass should be in the tree now and on its way to your local mirrors. Sorry for the inconvenience, ~mcummings
