gentoo-overlay/app-emulation/xe-guest-utilities/files/xe-guest-utilities-5.6.100_p651-gentoo.patch

--- usr/sbin/xe-linux-distribution.orig	2011-04-18 10:56:30.000000000 -0500
+++ usr/sbin/xe-linux-distribution	2013-12-31 01:35:51.995831278 -0600
@@ -249,6 +249,24 @@
     write_to_output "${distro}" "${major}" "${minor}" "${description}"
 }
 
+identify_gentoo()
+{
+	gentoo_release="$1"
+	if [ ! -e "${gentoo_release}" ] ; then
+		return 1
+	fi
+	distro="gentoo"
+	eval $(cat ${gentoo_release} | awk '{ print "release=" $5 }' )
+	if [ -z "${release}" ] ; then
+		return 1
+	fi
+	eval $(echo $release | awk -F. -- '{ print "major=" $1 ; print "minor=" $2 }' )
+	if [ -z "${major}" -o -z "$minor" ] ; then
+		return 1
+	fi
+	write_to_output "${distro}" "${major}" "${minor}" "${distro}"
+}
+
 if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
     exec 1>"$1"
 fi
@@ -258,6 +276,7 @@
     identify_sles   /etc/SuSE-release   && exit 0
     identify_lsb    lsb_release         && exit 0
     identify_debian /etc/debian_version && exit 0
+    identify_gentoo /etc/gentoo-release && exit 0
 
     if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
 	rm -f "$1"