The ebuild passes --libexecdir="${EPREFIX}/$(get_libdir)" to econf. It looks like this was used to control the install location for the xtables modules. However, upstream changed this to ${libdir}/xtables, which causes the modules to be intstalled in /usr/lib/xtables instead of /lib/xtables. https://git.netfilter.org/iptables/commit/?id=411a4e50ec1030f2dc51c5b0156e0c7255c81905 The --libexec flag should be removed from the ebuild. Also, you may want to consider passing --libdir=/$(get_libdir) or --with-xtlibdir=/$(get_libdir)/xtables if iptables should be usable without /usr mounted.
It's worth noting that because iptables installs .pc files, you don't want to override libdir, or you'll prevent pkg-config from locating those files. Setting xtlibdir would probably be the best choice here, if you want iptables to be usable before /usr is mounted.
alternatively we could move the progs & libs files to /usr
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #2) > alternatively we could move the progs & libs files to /usr Sure. I would be good to have an announcement for that; I'm sure there are scripts out there that call /sbin/iptables.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4fc9966a33ed4f82e6c10f3dc518326fa1063cde commit 4fc9966a33ed4f82e6c10f3dc518326fa1063cde Author: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2024-02-06 15:29:48 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-02-06 22:49:31 +0000 net-firewall/iptables: remove usr-ldscript support Per news item 2024-01-05-usr-initramfs, we no longer support this use case. It is fragile and hacky and leads to bizarre forms of load errors. The functionality is, despite being called "split-usr", not really about split-usr at all. [sam: Add bug #332175 and bug #498878 ref.] Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/332175 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/498878 Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> .../iptables/{iptables-1.8.9-r1.ebuild => iptables-1.8.9-r2.ebuild} | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
