diff --git a/sys-firmware/eth-firmware/Manifest b/sys-firmware/eth-firmware/Manifest
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+DIST linux-firmware-20181026.tar.gz 167486645 BLAKE2B 9923b9a8ab692023022d7bceb238b2ec4eba395062307864be558d969fba657301ada317b95071cad82a7a883a2d08f63f0ed34ecc7914a36f31ce85f55ac31f SHA512 4d6eff765557888dea432e0a28973c8ec067354a57aa4c37198e887618ca17e9d5e1243a618820fb470a86a5ce4b6255290f1c2c3835baba4fb87148372cafb0
diff --git a/sys-firmware/eth-firmware/eth-firmware-20181026.ebuild b/sys-firmware/eth-firmware/eth-firmware-20181026.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="6"
+
+MYPN=linux-firmware
+MYP=linux-firmware-${PV}
+
+GIT_COMMIT="1cb4e51018293c14642f115b5868cda92b879161"
+SRC_URI="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/snapshot/linux-firmware-${GIT_COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${MYP}.tar.gz"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Binary firmware for Realtek Ethernet"
+HOMEPAGE="https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git"
+
+LICENSE="linux-firmware ( BSD ISC MIT no-source-code ) GPL-2 GPL-2+ freedist"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="!sys-kernel/linux-firmware"
+
+RESTRICT="binchecks strip"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	default
+	# rename directory from git snapshot tarball
+	mv ${MYPN}-*/ ${P} || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto /lib/firmware/
+	doins -r rtl_nic
+}