On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:46:08 +0200
Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> How can I get an patch downloaded from some location and then applied ?
> I've inspecting some ebuilds in the portage tree and learned how to 
> apply patches in the files/ subdir. Now I need to know, how to download
> the patches (simply add them to $SRC_URI ?) and then get them referenced
> for applying ?

This list is not the 'teach me how to write ebuilds' mailing list. If you
want help writing ebuilds, #gentoo-dev-help on irc.freenode.net is the
place for it. You should read the following documents all the way
through before asking for help: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml

-Thomas