diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index fda9758e7a5..c1efa21d08f 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1435,3 +1435,4 @@ libglusterfs.so.0 libglusterfs-3.4.1_1
 libgfrpc.so.0 libglusterfs-3.4.1_1
 libgfxdr.so.0 libglusterfs-3.4.1_1
 libgfapi.so.0 libglusterfs-3.4.1_1
+libsnapper.so.2 libsnapper-0.1.7_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libsnapper b/srcpkgs/libsnapper
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..e56c83abd1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libsnapper
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+snapper
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/snapper-devel b/srcpkgs/snapper-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..e56c83abd1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/snapper-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+snapper
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/snapper/template b/srcpkgs/snapper/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f52f86938a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/snapper/template
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# Template file for 'snapper'
+pkgname=snapper
+version=0.1.7
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--disable-zypp --with-conf=/etc/conf.d"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config automake libtool libxml2-devel libxslt docbook-xsl"
+makedepends="zlib-devel boost-devel>=1.54 dbus-devel libxml2-devel pam-devel"
+short_desc="The GNU stream editor"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://snapper.io"
+distfiles="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
+checksum=fcb8d98aa36021970b214a2b6ea85f86aa29e107559bf677226e2e4ade2c6ed0
+
+pre_configure() {
+	# rename cron scripts
+	sed -i -e 's@suse.de-@@g' scripts/Makefile.am
+	# fix config location in cron scripts
+	sed -i -e 's@/etc/sysconfig/@/etc/conf.d/@g' scripts/snapper-{daily,hourly}
+
+	sed -i -e 's@lboost_thread-mt@lboost_thread@g' snapper/Makefile.am
+	sed -i -e 's@lboost_system-mt@lboost_system@g' snapper/Makefile.am
+
+	# fix pam plugin install location
+	sed -i -e 's@shell echo /@shell echo /usr/@g' pam/Makefile.am
+
+	autoreconf -fi
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vinstall data/sysconfig.snapper 644 etc/conf.d snapper
+}
+
+libsnapper_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - runtime library"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so.*"
+	}
+}
+
+snapper-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="libsnapper>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+	}
+}
+
+snapper_package() {
+	conf_files="/etc/conf.d/snapper"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove all
+	}
+}