diff --git a/net-im/bbctl/Manifest b/net-im/bbctl/Manifest
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+++ b/net-im/bbctl/Manifest
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+DIST bbctl-0.13.0.tar.gz 76461 BLAKE2B f05b23d5e69e8ea78114df57e225f07456cc9ed895c95772cc0f90d2792b57edebb7aa5fa820f6a093d8f30c94d9e814913aa197d2294a0b6860525f23e28056 SHA512 6ce826acd8f58e2b5128c852d23159a3cd15496f99606fad6d4247a8f07159396ba0754b69cc866df67db88d41daf0c5267f8141a75591f9a246c8a2af4fbe4d
+DIST bridge-manager-0.13.0-vendor.tar.xz 1439060 BLAKE2B 5da9a3cdf36021b3acda5c4ebd916ea4c8607fda2d7c1556f7fd0711ecd7aabd591ec3137ddeb3499a8f13af88313e1d296b311824a441403f15e2ed34b9ebb3 SHA512 7f6e6bcd1fd962ba9895c7dc4ab1bbfb4c774b981740b97bc5c05b0aebb1ce8b23966435feff704ce4c246d1ea017bd405c81c00501e55a369474a0cb3cddb17
diff --git a/net-im/bbctl/bbctl-0.13.0.ebuild b/net-im/bbctl/bbctl-0.13.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit go-module
+
+MY_PN="bridge-manager"
+MY_P="${MY_PN}-${PV}"
+DESCRIPTION="Beeper Bridge Manager"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/beeper/${MY_PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
+	https://github.com/gentoo-golang-dist/${MY_PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${MY_P}-vendor.tar.xz
+"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+# Go dependency licenses
+LICENSE+=" BSD BSD-2 MIT MPL-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+src_compile() {
+	local BUILD_TIME=$(date -Iseconds)
+	local go_ldflags=(
+		-X "main.Tag=v${PV}"
+		-X "main.BuildTime=${BUILD_TIME}"
+	)
+
+	ego build -ldflags "${go_ldflags[*]}" ./cmd/bbctl
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin bbctl
+	einstalldocs
+
+	exeinto /etc/user/init.d
+	newexe "${FILESDIR}"/bbctl.initd bbctl
+}
diff --git a/net-im/bbctl/files/bbctl.initd b/net-im/bbctl/files/bbctl.initd
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+++ b/net-im/bbctl/files/bbctl.initd
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+#!/sbin/openrc-run
+# shellcheck shell=sh
+#
+# Copyright 2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+bridge=${RC_SVCNAME#*.}
+
+supervisor="supervise-daemon"
+command="/usr/bin/bbctl"
+command_args="${BBCTL_OPTS} run ${bridge?} ${BBCTL_BRIDGE_OPTS}"
+respawn_max=0
+
+depend() {
+	use dns firewall
+	need net
+}
+
+start_pre() {
+	if [ "${bridge?}" = "${RC_SVCNAME?}" ]; then
+		eerror "${RC_SVCNAME?} cannot be started directly. You must create"
+		eerror "symbolic links to it for the bridges you want to start"
+		eerror "(e.g. bbctl.sh-irc) and add those to the appropriate runlevels."
+		return 1
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/net-im/bbctl/metadata.xml b/net-im/bbctl/metadata.xml
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+++ b/net-im/bbctl/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>cyber+gentoo@sysrq.in</email>
+		<name>Anna</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">beeper/bridge-manager</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>