Source URIs as referenced in the ebuild : SRC_URI="mirror://kernel/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-${OKV}.tar.bz2 mirror://gentoo/patch-${KV}.bz2 http://dev.gentoo.org/~trance/stuff/patch-${KV}.bz2" [...] and applying the patch : bzcat ${DISTDIR}/patches-${KV}.bz2 | patch -p1 || die "patch failed" bzcat report : >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2 to /home/portage/tmp/portage/ppc-sources-2.4.24/work bzcat: Can't open input file /home/portage/distfiles/patches-2.4.24-benh0.bz2: No such file or directory. and the ebuild does not fail since it only tests patch return value. (There's another small typo in the variable DESCRIPTION telling it's a 2.6 kernel) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge sys-kernel/ppc-sources-2.4.24 Actual Results: Non patched vanilla kernel Expected Results: Benh patched kernel # emerge info Portage 2.0.50_pre16 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22-ben2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-ben2 ppc 7455, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7400 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-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 /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7400 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X X509 aalib alsa altivec arts berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga dillo directfb dv dvd dvdr encode esd faad fbcon ffmpeg flash foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gnome-libs gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib java javascript jpeg libwww mad matroska mitshm motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 ncurses nls odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pg-hier png ppc ppds python quicktime radeon readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype wmf xface xine xmms xv xvid zlib"
wierd the old version of my testing ebuild. fixed. thanks for the bug =) Should hit the rsync server within an hour