[gentoo-user] Patching of ebuilds

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	I've had a look on the web but can't seem to find any instructions on 
how to do the patching of ebuilds. I have the situation where I've tried 
to install the media centre app MMSV2. I've done the emerge, a lot of 
dependent functionality was compiled and now it's up to compiling the 
actual MMSV2. When compiling, an error happens. I had a look in 
bugs.gentoo.org and there is a bug in there that covers, I think, the 
failure.

	Attached to the bug is a patch that someone has developed. I now want 
to use this patch to patch the ebuild and see if it really does fix the 
problem. My problem is that I don't know the actual steps needed to do 
the patching. I know about the patch utility but I don't know where the 
actual files are, and how I  should do the patching so that Portage does 
not view the patched files as corrupt and therefore won't do the emerge.

	If someone can tell me how, or point me to a webpage that tells me how, 
to do the patching it would be greatly appreciated.

        Regards,
                Andrew