Bug 384055 – net-firewall/xtables-addons-1.38 says it needs >= 2.6.29, but in ebuild is kernel_is -lt 2 6 35

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vitaliy V. Osypenko 2011-09-22 09:49:06 UTC]

I'm using openvz-2.6.32 kernel adn xtables-addons dies with this error:

 * ERROR: net-firewall/xtables-addons-1.38 failed (setup phase):
 *   xtables-addons with ipset requires kernel version >= 2.6.29
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *                    ebuild.sh, line  91:  Called pkg_setup
 *   xtables-addons-1.38.ebuild, line  74:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                      die "${PN} with ipset requires kernel version >= 2.6.29"


but in ebuild is:


		if ! (use xtables_addons_ipset4 || use xtables_addons_ipset6) &&
			kernel_is -lt 2 6 35; then
			die "${PN} with ipset requires kernel version >= 2.6.29"
		fi

So what is right?

[Comment 1 Jaak Ristioja 2011-09-22 21:06:25 UTC]

Same emerge error with hardened-sources-2.6.32 and xtables-addons-1.37.

[Comment 2 Sven Wegener 2011-09-25 17:11:26 UTC]

The whole package requires >=2.6.29 and the new separate ipset package (>=net-firewall/ipset-6) requires >=2.6.35.

The ipset6 module fails to build with a 2.6.32 kernel, so I expect 2.6.35 to be the correct requirement.

The logic was also wrong and resulted in the message being displayed when not building ipset[46] on an older kernel.