From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:15:34 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/ebtables: install symlink to ebtables-legacy In-Reply-To: <20210216115802.32317-1-patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> (Thomas De Schampheleire's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:58:01 +0100") References: <20210216115802.32317-1-patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> Message-ID: <8735xv5fmx.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire writes: > From: Thomas De Schampheleire > Since the upgrade of ebtables from 2.0.10-4 to 2.0.11, there no longer is an > 'ebtables' binary. It has been renamed to 'ebtables-legacy' and moved from > '/sbin' to '/usr/sbin'. This change is part of the upstream change to > integrate the functionality of ebtables (and arptables) in the iptables > package, using the nf_tables kernel backend [1]. > Unfortunately, the renaming (and move) of the original 'ebtables' binary > breaks existing scripts that are calling 'ebtables' or '/sbin/ebtables'. > Therefore, add a symlink from the original path to 'ebtables-legacy'. > However, do not provide this symlink if BR2_PACKAGE_IPTABLES_NFTABLES is > enabled. In this case, the iptables package will build the new equivalent > of ebtables -- a symlink to ebtables-legacy would cause conflicts. > [1] https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Legacy_xtables_tools > Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire Committed to 2020.11.x, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard