diff --git a/net-libs/xrootd-ceph/Manifest b/net-libs/xrootd-ceph/Manifest
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+DIST xrootd-ceph-4.12.0.tar.gz 80601 BLAKE2B 05e31ec3a03d50f36f7ef368705ca8ad064d1d9da4fc3815aaf96ce358da07348aaea264d82884da2782cf7c1069b584269fff9f2a3140057b2d4d2929639f77 SHA512 de55cc923bad3629de6428dbc4e7c7e2cb802512f03f49bcfc79f12221828cd9702f1c9a1bc28b599dce801c937146cf381dfd589c85f4f5721c4fbf13f6ad34
diff --git a/net-libs/xrootd-ceph/metadata.xml b/net-libs/xrootd-ceph/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>sci-physics@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Physics Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		This XROOTD plug-in allows it to interface with rados block devices via
+		<pkg>sys-cluster/ceph</pkg>. Until its version 4.10.0 it used to part
+		of <pkg>net-libs/xrootd</pkg> itself.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/net-libs/xrootd-ceph/xrootd-ceph-4.12.0.ebuild b/net-libs/xrootd-ceph/xrootd-ceph-4.12.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit cmake
+
+DESCRIPTION="xrootd OSS plug-in for interfacing with Ceph storage platform"
+HOMEPAGE="https://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/xrootd/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+
+DEPEND="net-libs/xrootd
+	!<net-libs/xrootd-4.10.0[rbd]
+	sys-cluster/ceph"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+# xrootd plugins are not intended to be linked with,
+# they are to be loaded at runtime by xrootd,
+# see https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/447
+QA_SONAME="/usr/lib.*/libXrd.*-$(ver_cut 1).so"