Created attachment 296143 [details, diff] anope-1.8.6-bump.patch net-irc/anope-1.8.6 is now available. Also, here is a patch so that Anope no longer needs to be installed to /opt.
Created attachment 296145 [details, diff] anope-1.8.7-gentoo.patch Patch for Makefiles, source, etc.
Comment on attachment 296143 [details, diff] anope-1.8.6-bump.patch Marking patches as obsolete; they are not as complete as I originally though.
Created attachment 296295 [details, diff] anope-1.8.7-bump.patch Updated ebuild patch ensuring proper datastore permissions.
Created attachment 296297 [details, diff] anope-initd.patch Small initscript fixes.
Adam notes that anope-1.8.7 is already out, so we should just target that.
Comment on attachment 296295 [details, diff] anope-1.8.7-bump.patch Attached patches work fine with this new version without modification.
Created attachment 297117 [details, diff] anope-1.8.7.ebuild.patch
Created attachment 297119 [details, diff] anope.initd-r1.patch
Created attachment 297121 [details, diff] anope-1.8-libdir-gentoo.patch
Nice surprise to see upstream here. :) Adam, thanks for taking the time to improve my original patches.
It has been added to the tree :) Thanks everyone for helping.