Looks like cvs.eclass trys only "patch -p0" while iterating the $PATCHES variable. In my opinion, it should also try (at least) -p1 since numerous diff's are made with something like "diff -ur dir-orig dir-patched". Note that base.eclass uses -p0 for $PATCHES and -p1 for $PATCHES1 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. obviously inherit cvs in the ebuild 2. use "PATCHES=${FILESDIR}/somepatch.diff" which needs -p1 when applied in ${S} directory 3. try to emerge Actual Results: emerge fails with something like: can't find file to patch at input line 4 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? Expected Results: Patch it cleanly, I guess :P One could add a similar "for x in $PATCHES1 ... " block to cvs.eclass, or make it use epatch-function. This bug is in no way critical. One solution is not to use the $PATCHES variable at all and overwrite the src_unpack() function. But since the $PATCHES is there it might be reasonable to handle it correctly.
Re-assign, assignee seems retired (Bug 106726).
changed it to epatch
