diff --git a/dev-ruby/rex-struct2/Manifest b/dev-ruby/rex-struct2/Manifest
index b62157b67..e36b27412 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/rex-struct2/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/rex-struct2/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST rex-struct2-0.1.1.gem 18432 BLAKE2B 4dff1f1a4d41f7bf74652505ad9d063a786e3491539d1a04a9d59ac3f4446c672454c556bef1822394a087a52f91044378d4c0c2c67c2b0ff8909aecab7638cc SHA512 894d8bdf609a7b0f4500bf9da7c175530b76c72374e059cdbd08d47be777b329ba1886a3bbba485b9f0c1be7aa4e12ad07807c0ea3390419c1f5f69ccedee26f
+DIST rex-struct2-0.1.2.gem 18432 BLAKE2B 1ff9196e38ae67b87f4348394da3b05759548dbfa29b8e1a4a891a02cc75a1e02b890bf3a53bb7f274f9a5336aa46330efc38dcd50fa5da25e74392bc78a2b91 SHA512 c8b549c89e5b884a6ec6ef9a04dd2a3400bfeb885b742f1bc256a200387bcbd8ba848ad1e69a4c0c349516a62c04067a8bbffff04cb5c581f51d0ff91a142e6b
diff --git a/dev-ruby/rex-struct2/rex-struct2-0.1.2.ebuild b/dev-ruby/rex-struct2/rex-struct2-0.1.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3f628a2dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ruby/rex-struct2/rex-struct2-0.1.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+USE_RUBY="ruby25 ruby26"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_DOC=""
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_BINWRAP=""
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="Ruby Exploitation(Rex) library for generating/manipulating C-Style structs"
+HOMEPAGE="https://rubygems.org/gems/rex-struct2"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 arm x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+# doesn't seem to actually run any tests
+RESTRICT=test
diff --git a/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-ruby b/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-ruby
index cff4d5855..9ada153bf 100644
--- a/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-ruby
+++ b/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-ruby
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ dev-ruby/rex-core
 dev-ruby/rex-socket
 dev-ruby/rex-ole
 dev-ruby/rex-arch
-dev-ruby/rex-struct2
 dev-ruby/rex-java
 dev-ruby/rex-registry
 dev-ruby/rex-zip