The net-misc/openvswitch ebuild peforms a kernel version check which prevents it being installed on 3.12. Based on the OVS FAQ at http://git.openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=FAQ;hb=HEAD and examining "Q: What Linux kernel versions does each Open vSwitch release work with?" it seems that the version check (at least for the highest version) should only be performed when USE="modules". The FAQ specifically states: "Open vSwitch userspace is not sensitive to the Linux kernel version. It should build against almost any kernel, certainly against 2.6.32 and later." Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Be running kernel v3.12 2. Unmask net-misc/openvswitch-1.11.0, (testing 2.0.0) 3. emerge net-misc/openvswitch Actual Results: Openvswitch ebuild dies because of the condition: kernel_is lt 3 11 || die "Linux >=2.6.18 and <3.11 required" Expected Results: As I do not have USE="modules" and I have CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH=m in my kernel config then the package should build and install. I moved the min and max check in the ebuild in pkg_setup() to the use modules condition in order to install 1.11.0. The package compiled and installed and I have run it without any observed problems on kernel 3.11 and 3.12.
Verified with upstream just to be double sure, but it's now fixed for 1.11 and 2.0.
