diff --git a/srcpkgs/luasocket/patches/luasocket-arch.patch b/srcpkgs/luasocket/patches/luasocket-arch.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..87f029a4206
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/luasocket/patches/luasocket-arch.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- config.orig	2007-10-15 08:21:05.000000000 +0400
++++ config	2007-10-15 12:22:16.000000000 +0400
+@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
+ #
+ #INSTALL_TOP_SHARE=/usr/local/share/lua/5.0
+ #INSTALL_TOP_LIB=/usr/local/lib/lua/5.0
+-INSTALL_TOP_SHARE=/usr/local/share/lua/5.1
+-INSTALL_TOP_LIB=/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1
++INSTALL_TOP_SHARE=$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/lua/5.1
++INSTALL_TOP_LIB=$(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/lua/5.1
+ 
+ INSTALL_DATA=cp
+ INSTALL_EXEC=cp
diff --git a/srcpkgs/luasocket/patches/luasocket-unixsocket.patch b/srcpkgs/luasocket/patches/luasocket-unixsocket.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..08bf98613d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/luasocket/patches/luasocket-unixsocket.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+--- makefile	2007-10-15 04:21:05.000000000 +0000
++++ makefile	2011-03-09 12:00:54.000000000 +0000
+@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
+ INSTALL_SOCKET_LIB=$(INSTALL_TOP_LIB)/socket
+ INSTALL_MIME_SHARE=$(INSTALL_TOP_SHARE)/mime
+ INSTALL_MIME_LIB=$(INSTALL_TOP_LIB)/mime
++#
++INSTALL_UNIX_LIB=$(INSTALL_SOCKET_LIB)
+ 
+ all clean:
+ 	cd src; $(MAKE) $@
+@@ -45,6 +47,8 @@
+ 	#cd src; $(INSTALL_DATA) $(TO_MIME_SHARE) $(INSTALL_MIME_SHARE)
+ 	cd src; mkdir -p $(INSTALL_MIME_LIB)
+ 	cd src; $(INSTALL_EXEC) $(MIME_SO) $(INSTALL_MIME_LIB)/core.$(EXT)
++	cd src; install -d $(INSTALL_UNIX_LIB)
++	cd src; $(INSTALL_EXEC) $(UNIX_SO) $(INSTALL_UNIX_LIB)/$(UNIX_SO)
+ 
+ #------
+ # End of makefile
+--- src/makefile	2007-10-15 04:21:05.000000000 +0000
++++ src/makefile	2011-03-09 12:02:25.000000000 +0000
+@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
+ 	usocket.o \
+ 	unix.o
+ 
+-all: $(SOCKET_SO) $(MIME_SO) 
++all: $(SOCKET_SO) $(MIME_SO) $(UNIX_SO)
+ 
+ $(SOCKET_SO): $(SOCKET_OBJS)
+ 	$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(SOCKET_OBJS)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/luasocket/template b/srcpkgs/luasocket/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4f5de8291a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/luasocket/template
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Template file for 'luasocket'
+pkgname=luasocket
+version=2.0.2
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-makefile
+makedepends="lua-devel"
+short_desc="Network support for the Lua language "
+maintainer="davehome <davehome@redthumb.info.tm>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~diego/professional/luasocket/"
+distfiles="http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/2664/luasocket-$version.tar.gz"
+checksum=4fd9c775cfd98841299851e29b30176caf289370fea1ff1e00bb67c2d6842ca6
+long_desc="
+ LuaSocket is a Lua extension library that is composed by two parts: a C core
+ that provides support for the TCP and UDP transport layers, and a set of Lua
+ modules that add support for functionality commonly needed by applications
+ that deal with the Internet."
+
+luasocket_package() {
+	depends="lua"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr
+	}
+}