Please, add a such statement to src_prepare section of the ebuild. It would make adding own patches much easier. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. put user-provided patch to /etc/portage/patches/app-emulation/virtualbox/my.patch 2. emerge app-emulation/virtualbox Actual Results: The patch doesn't apply Expected Results: The patch applies
+ 06 Dec 2013; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> virtualbox-4.2.18.ebuild, + virtualbox-4.2.20.ebuild, virtualbox-4.3.4.ebuild: + Added epatch_user call as requested in bug #491740. +