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On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 12:52:24 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:29:03 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Today's update of iptables to 1.8.1 failed here because I didn't have |
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> > USE=nftables set. After setting that in package.use it was fine. Before |
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> > I submit a bug report, though, I'd like to understand one thing: |
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> > |
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> > $ grep nftables $(equery w iptables) |
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> > IUSE="conntrack ipv6 netlink nftables pcap static-libs" |
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> > |
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> > nftables? ( |
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> > nftables? ( |
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> > nftables? ( net-misc/ethertypes ) |
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> > |
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> > $(use_enable nftables) |
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> > |
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> > use nftables && emake -C iptables xtables-config-parser.h |
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> > if use nftables; then |
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> > |
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> > Shouldn't that IUSE entry be enough to pull in nftables? |
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> No, IUSE simply lists the USE flags relevant to the ebuild. The |
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> dependencies are set in DEPEND, which contains |
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> nftables? ( |
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> sys-devel/flex |
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> virtual/yacc |
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> ) |
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> It sounds like nftables should be in there too. this is with 1.8.0-r1, |
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> which is the latest I have here after syncing at 0720 today. |
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It's 1.8.1 here. All three DEPEND stanzas (DEPEND, RDEPEND and COMMON_DEPEND) |
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have nftables? conditions, but nowhere is nftables made a requirement, even |
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though the package won't compile without it. |
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Bug report https://bugs.gentoo.org/669498 submitted. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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