Please create a new ebuild for ntrack. Upstream describes it as `a lightweight and easy to use library for application developers that want to get events on network online status changes such as online, offline or route changes'. >=net-im/kadu-0.10.0 can take advantage of it (it actually has an automagic dependency on ntrack if found). Probably more packages can use it too, I don't know. There is a working net-libs/ntrack ebuild available in roslin overlay (though it has wrong version number 0.14 instead of upstream 014).
*** Bug 393053 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Current upstream is 016, there is an ebuild at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393053 which may or may not be better or worse than the one i the roslin overlay (didn't check)
ok looking at the one in the roslin overlay its lacking options to build some of the features (such as the python bindings). I'm attaching the ebuild I made for 016 to this bug.
Created attachment 294795 [details] net-libs/ntrack-016 ebuild file
Thank you for contributing an ebuild; here is some constructive advice to make your ebuild writing easier towards the future, as well as some minor corrections: 1) You can append the ebuild header from `head -n 3 /usr/portage/skel.ebuild`. 2) EAPI 5 is available, see link [2] at the bottom of this comment for more info. 3) Keywords should be unstable (KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86") until stabilization. 4) MIN_QT_VERSION makes it harder since you can just adjust the dependency. 5) You might miss dependencies, see bug #453926. Also, you might want to check whether certain USE flags need to be enabled for the package to work. 6) Use query functions [1] which can make src_configure much shorter, you don't need the "die" for ebuild helpers in EAPI>=4 since it introduces "utilities die on their own, unless the nonfatal command is used" as you can see in [2]; here is an example: > src_configure() { > econf \ > $(use_with pygobject) \ > $(use_enable developerbuild developer-build) \ > $(use_with qt qt4) \ > $(use_with glib glib2) > } If you somehow explicitly need the yes and no, you could use the new usex from EAPI=5, see "New usex helper function" near the bottom of [2]. 7) You can call the default src_install and you don't need "die" here either. > src_install() { > default > dodoc README ChangeLog NEWS > } With kind regards. PS: If you want, you can let us know through this bug if you want to become a proxy maintainer [3, chapter 6] for this package. [1]: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/function-reference/query-functions [2]: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/eapi [3]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/#doc_chap6
Created attachment 337990 [details] ntrack-016.ebuild Slightly reworked ebuild for ntrack: - EAPI 5, autotools-utils eclass - Use flag reorganizing - Add missing optional run-time dependency on libnl and build-time dependency on pkgconfig - Correct license - drop -Werror from CFLAGS - developer build enabled by default, cause it's probably needed for correct tests passing Known issues: - USE=python is broken Those changes was partly done as suggested by Tom Wijsman
