velbloud ~ # fetchipac -S Couldn't load target `standard':/lib/iptables/libipt_standard.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Indeed, there's no such file (while there was one with net-firewall/iptables-1.3.8-r3). Looking at the source code, it seems that it wants to load some kind of a "generic" module from iptables, and fails in that attempt...
Well if there isn't a way to get iptables to build that .SO, there might not be a fix available that doesn't involve updating ipac-ng. AFAIK ipac-ng isn't being maintained anymore and so someone would have to take over and write a new version. I'm sure it would be welcomed though since this error started showing up on their mailing list a couple years ago.
This bug and bug #191582 are as far as I can tell are the same symptom. Take this with a grain of salt as I'm new at this. ipac-ng seems to try to preload iptables modules prior to setting up the chains and rules. However, it appears that ipac-ng has been enhanced once or twice so in some cases it pulls the lib directory from the configure macros; whereas, in some places it has hard-coded filenames and paths. Iptables has moved some of the shared .so files to /lib/xtables or /lib64/xtables and have changed the prefix from libipt_%s.so to libxt_%s.so. Therefore, ipac-ng unmodified cannot find the shared .so files. I initially thought it would be a simple task of hunting through and updating the configure paths and changing the hard-coded filenames and paths. However, when I've done that I get: ./fetchipac -S Couldn't load target `standard':/lib64/xtables/libxt_standard.so: undefined symbol: xtables_register_target Now this is a bit of a guess... But in iptables.c it seems that they have taken complete chucks of code from iptables-1.2.2 and use their own *.h files. Therefore, in >iptables-1.3.8 like my iptables-1.4.2 the code chunks are different and I therefore get, the undefined symbols error from above. I'm at a bit of a loss of what to try next - I might have a look at what some of the other distributions have done. Or I might try to copy the code blocks over from iptables-1.4.2.
Package was dropped from the tree.
