diff --git a/net-misc/wakeonlan/Manifest b/net-misc/wakeonlan/Manifest
index d21a7913c14a1..d6654f620c0d3 100644
--- a/net-misc/wakeonlan/Manifest
+++ b/net-misc/wakeonlan/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST wakeonlan-0.41.tar.gz 6028 BLAKE2B d560c7dd830daf596ffd7d797d1908d1fc90d20c6861a0e341b20eb38137b809fe1a78819f9ca729fa06f88285cfb22d0719092bed1d49d9763a7e2bb8a986bf SHA512 192ed2ad157e3f5af01632b8f2b727e232448e5a9bff6aec25298fa9913ec38f1036b665b141b5299994c88b1941d9896b6eaa92cfdb44d65db3628f50e3824f
+DIST wakeonlan-0.42.tar.gz 8981 BLAKE2B 3af1f93f1d956d0d26943a453701c91d303fbb3b8e7395906fea6173253621579ae99ef88c193fc5825312030699b1175a6786869d455012d9c86f907cdb7f1d SHA512 46ecc7106eefa0b993f0f59eb4e4a593fac7831dffee87c743a7bd757abf366258e99e1efc6742fb3992ee066cb4e280787d0bf3d2db7fb4c88be7c09452da81
diff --git a/net-misc/wakeonlan/wakeonlan-0.42.ebuild b/net-misc/wakeonlan/wakeonlan-0.42.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..90ed3b016044d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-misc/wakeonlan/wakeonlan-0.42.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+inherit eapi9-ver perl-module
+
+DESCRIPTION="Client for Wake-On-LAN"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/jpoliv/wakeonlan/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/jpoliv/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Artistic GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+BDEPEND=">=virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.46"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# would require Test::Spelling for which we have no ebuild
+	rm "${S}"/t/93_pod_spell.t || die
+	# the following ones are "only" lint, for which we have ebuilds
+	# but not for all arches this ebuild has
+	rm "${S}"/t/81_perlcritic.t || die # dev-perl/Test-Perl-Critic
+	rm "${S}"/t/91_pod.t || die # dev-perl/Test-Pod
+	rm "${S}"/t/92_pod_coverage.t || die # dev-perl/Test-Pod-Coverage
+
+	perl-module_src_prepare
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	perl-module_src_install
+	dodoc examples/lab001.wol
+	fperms u+w /usr/bin/wakeonlan /usr/share/man/man1/wakeonlan.1
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	if ver_replacing -lt "0.42"; then
+		ewarn "Gentoo used to have support for using hostnames from /etc/ethers"
+		ewarn "versions >=0.42 do not carry that downstream patch/feature anymore"
+		ewarn "you could wrap with i.e. \"getent ethers <hostname>\""
+	fi
+}