[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#946932: /usr/sbin/ebtables-nft-restore requires /etc/ethertypes

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

On 12/18/19 4:25 AM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Package: iptables
> Version: 1.8.4-1
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/sbin/ebtables-nft-restore
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when trying to run the firewalld test-suite with only iptables installed
> but not ebtables and ebtables-restore pointing at
> /usr/sbin/ebtables-nft-restore I get the following failure:
> 
> +Error: COMMAND_FAILED: '/usr/sbin/ebtables-restore --noflush' failed: ebtables-restore v1.8.4 (nf_tables): Problem with the specified Ethernet protocol 'IPv6', perhaps /etc/ethertypes is missing
> +Error occurred at line: 2
> +Try `ebtables-restore -h' or 'ebtables-restore --help' for more information.
> +
> stdout:
> ./firewall-cmd.at:911: exit code was 13, expected 0
> 
> And indeed, /etc/ethertypes is provided by the ebtables package.
> Installing ebtables and rerunning the test makes
> /usr/sbin/ebtables-restore succeed.
> 
> Should /etc/ethertypes be moved into a common package which both
> ebtables and iptables can depend upon?
> 

@Alberto,

What do you think about this issue? Could you please handle it?

regards.