diff --git a/sys-process/audit/Manifest b/sys-process/audit/Manifest
index 871369d..c1d2098 100644
--- a/sys-process/audit/Manifest
+++ b/sys-process/audit/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST audit-2.6.4.tar.gz 1078677 SHA256 b5a79cecd9593c368c9e42d5af72fcd14f046676657e906970b6c4a1aa5d06c7 SHA512 69b5d3987d2b8b189d1242fde639af3d7d366e901733133e47ee71223caf73aa7da40b7811298f0af861969b0ab482c5ef9830b711bdd15bd5f4d0ebc88a1224 WHIRLPOOL bda2f7bb754620b003c9c7df2e29d169e0421a9f0a1cf11396539fc3cae1d3907dc4265c3941e24a30eb206032a894989e74b803f2c4a7558057b879c41b2642
+DIST audit-2.7.1.tar.gz 1099083 SHA256 0441790794fd9375dbca598fa0ffb46c57ff37b3a24b94ffec0bbee3215cca09 SHA512 37964d81deee8608fde5f90d5d096727d3eb009e084be34749adcb0662e607e35c49c80bd83ce38b17161f11363b691721c8a8aa5dea832d320c53ab0ebb7483 WHIRLPOOL 87b7187dc56d78a5401d0f2a39c5461924bbac1d5fa49f68121a38a2422f3e6111e6c9f73db54c882cbaa17f584a23478863ef7c86053ddff63088d3903aafc9
diff --git a/sys-process/audit/audit-2.6.4.ebuild b/sys-process/audit/audit-2.7.1.ebuild
similarity index 91%
rename from sys-process/audit/audit-2.6.4.ebuild
rename to sys-process/audit/audit-2.7.1.ebuild
index 1715009..ad29cab 100644
--- a/sys-process/audit/audit-2.6.4.ebuild
+++ b/sys-process/audit/audit-2.7.1.ebuild
@@ -15,20 +15,21 @@ SRC_URI="https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86"
-IUSE="apparmor ldap python tcpd"
+IUSE="apparmor gssapi ldap python static-libs tcpd"
 # Testcases are pretty useless as they are built for RedHat users/groups and kernels.
 RESTRICT="test"
 
 RDEPEND="apparmor? ( sys-apps/apparmor )
+	gssapi? ( virtual/krb5 )
 	ldap? ( net-nds/openldap )
 	tcpd? ( sys-apps/tcp-wrappers )
 	sys-libs/libcap-ng"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-		>=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.34
-		python? (
-			${PYTHON_DEPS}
-			dev-lang/swig:0
-		)"
+	>=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.34
+	python? (
+		${PYTHON_DEPS}
+		dev-lang/swig:0
+	)"
 # Do not use os-headers as this is linux specific
 
 REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
@@ -78,7 +79,9 @@ src_prepare() {
 multilib_src_configure() {
 	local ECONF_SOURCE=${S}
 	econf \
-		--sbindir=/sbin \
+		--sbindir=${EPREFIX}/sbin \
+		$(use_enable gssapi gssapi-krb5) \
+		$(use_enable static-libs static) \
 		--enable-systemd \
 		--without-python \
 		--without-python3 \
@@ -188,9 +191,9 @@ multilib_src_install_all() {
 
 	fperms 644 "$(systemd_get_systemunitdir)"/auditd.service # 556436
 
-	[ -f "${D}"/sbin/audisp-remote ] && \
+	[ -f "${ED}"/sbin/audisp-remote ] && \
 	dodir /usr/sbin && \
-	mv "${D}"/{sbin,usr/sbin}/audisp-remote || die
+	mv "${ED}"/{sbin,usr/sbin}/audisp-remote || die
 
 	# Gentoo rules
 	insinto /etc/audit/
@@ -201,7 +204,7 @@ multilib_src_install_all() {
 	keepdir /var/log/audit/
 
 	# Security
-	lockdown_perms "${D}"
+	lockdown_perms "${ED}"
 
 	prune_libtool_files --modules
 }
@@ -212,15 +215,15 @@ pkg_preinst() {
 }
 
 pkg_postinst() {
-	lockdown_perms "${ROOT}"
+	lockdown_perms "${EROOT}"
 	# Preserve from the audit-1 series
 	preserve_old_lib_notify /$(get_libdir)/libaudit.so.0
 }
 
 lockdown_perms() {
-	# upstream wants these to have restrictive perms
-	# should not || die, maybe not all paths exist
-	basedir="$1"
+	# upstream wants these to have restrictive perms.
+	# should not || die, maybe not all paths exist.
+	local basedir="$1"
 	chmod 0750 "${basedir}"/sbin/au{ditctl,report,dispd,ditd,search,trace} 2>/dev/null
 	chmod 0750 "${basedir}"/var/log/audit/ 2>/dev/null
 	chmod 0640 "${basedir}"/etc/{audit/,}{auditd.conf,audit.rules*} 2>/dev/null