quoth the Jim John:
> Hi. I want to patch cyrus-imapd. I have the diff file, but no source
> because I emerged from the repository. How do I get the source and ebuild
> it? Thanks.
>

If you emerged cyrus-imapd then the source will be in /usr/portage/distfiles. 
After patching you will have to recalculate the package digest (ie: the 
md5sum) or portage will refuse to install the new version. I cannot recall 
the exact command for this ATM but it is in the ebuild guide along with all 
the other gentoo docs...

-d
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