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Bug 554582

Summary: net-firewall/ebtables-2.0.10.4: add REQUIRES_EXCLUDE="libebt*"
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: mike <mike>
Component: [OLD] UnspecifiedAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description mike@marineau.org 2015-07-12 04:32:29 UTC
ebtables uses RUNPATH to move all of its libraries under $libdir/ebtables/ but portage does not consider that directory when computing REQUIRES and PROVIDES. Simply adding the following to the ebuild cleans things up:

> REQUIRES_EXCLUDE="libebt*"



As a side note, there is currently a stable 2.0.10.4 and unstable 2.0.10.4-r1, but both ebuilds are identical. Looks like ebtables.initd-r1 was mistakenly edited in place instead of creating ebtables.initd-r2. Happened ages ago so the extra ebuild probably should just be deleted while updating.
Comment 1 mike@marineau.org 2015-07-12 05:43:00 UTC
Correction: it isn't that portage doesn't look in the ebtables directory, it is that many of the libraries are missing SONAME. So fixing the build is also an option.