diff --git a/app-portage/portage-utils/portage-utils-0.63.ebuild b/app-portage/portage-utils/portage-utils-0.63.ebuild
index 257322d4ffaf8..3db85b515a488 100644
--- a/app-portage/portage-utils/portage-utils-0.63.ebuild
+++ b/app-portage/portage-utils/portage-utils-0.63.ebuild
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	static? ( dev-libs/iniparser:0[static-libs] )"
 
 src_prepare() {
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.61-solaris.patch
 	epatch_user
 }