/etc/init.d/net.eno1: _exists: command not found

[pygoscelis]

Hi all,

after some botched emerge world or two my network refused to start. The problem is that /etc/init.d/net.eno1 doesn't find the _exists shell function and bails out.

The function is in /lib/netifrc/net/ifconfig.sh, but /etc/init.d/net.eno1 does not see it.

It does not see it because it sources all *.sh files in $RC_LIBEXECDIR/net, but $RC_LIBEXECDIR is set to /lib64/rc/, and there's no "net" directory in it.

I have symlinked /lib/netifrc/net manually to /lib64/rc as a stopgap measure, it's working for now, but I wonder what's the reason of this? And what would be a proper fix?