diff --git a/srcpkgs/ngetty/files/Conf b/srcpkgs/ngetty/files/Conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1e13e86dd5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/ngetty/files/Conf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#	options format:
+#	[ttyX]=option[=value]
+#=debug
+=environ=,TERM=linux
+tty1=noclear-first=/run/.ngetty-noclear-tty1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/ngetty/files/ngetty/run b/srcpkgs/ngetty/files/ngetty/run
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index 00000000000..58e4338c34c
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+++ b/srcpkgs/ngetty/files/ngetty/run
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+export TERM=linux
+exec ngetty tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6
diff --git a/srcpkgs/ngetty/template b/srcpkgs/ngetty/template
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+++ b/srcpkgs/ngetty/template
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+# Template file for 'ngetty'
+pkgname=ngetty
+version=1.1
+revision=1
+short_desc="Daemon for virtual console terminals"
+maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://riemann.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/ngetty/"
+distfiles="http://riemann.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/ngetty/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=15a0649b552aa47eeb80c7cc57ec6f562a89e271b14386838fbdb90244c546b0
+
+build_options="static"
+
+do_build() {
+	make CC="${BUILD_CC}" CFLAGS="${BUILD_CFLAGS}" LDFLAGS="${BUILD_LDFLAGS}" opts_defs.h
+	cp opts_defs.h opts_defs.h.save
+	cp opts__defs.h opts__defs.h.save
+	make clean
+	cp opts_defs.h.save opts_defs.h 
+	cp opts__defs.h.save opts__defs.h 
+	sed -i 's/opts_defs.h: opts_make/opts_defs.h:/' Makefile
+
+	cp ${FILESDIR}/Conf .
+
+	if [ "$build_option_static" ]; then
+		LDFLAGS+=" -static"                           
+	fi
+
+	make CC="${CC}" CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" STR=:
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	make install sbin_prefix=${DESTDIR}/usr/bin DESTDIR=${DESTDIR}
+	vsconf sample.Conf
+	rm ${DESTDIR}/etc/ngetty/sample.Conf
+	vsv ngetty
+}