diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index f70d9fe5290..5ec8d8af206 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -988,3 +988,4 @@ libsbc.so.1 sbc-1.0_1
 libecryptfs.so.0 libecryptfs-100_1
 libmuffin.so.0 libmuffin-1.0.6_1
 libnuma.so.1 libnuma-2.0.7_1
+libxar.so.1 xar-1.5.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xar-devel b/srcpkgs/xar-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..842e1e4d953
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xar-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+xar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xar/patches/configure_disable_rpath.patch b/srcpkgs/xar/patches/configure_disable_rpath.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2a98028eb23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xar/patches/configure_disable_rpath.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- configure.orig	2012-08-23 16:25:41.891044934 +0200
++++ configure	2012-08-23 16:25:47.690906017 +0200
+@@ -3277,7 +3277,7 @@ case "${host}" in
+ 	CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+ 	abi="elf"
+ 		CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE"
+-	RPATH="-Wl,-rpath,"
++	RPATH=""
+ 	;;
+   *-*-netbsd*)
+ 	echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking ABI" >&5
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xar/template b/srcpkgs/xar/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b25c5fadbd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xar/template
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Template file for 'xar'
+pkgname=xar
+version=1.5.2
+revision=1
+subpackages="xar-devel"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--disable-static"
+makedepends="acl-devel libxml2-devel openssl-devel"
+short_desc="eXtensible ARchiver format"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="BSD"
+homepage="https://code.google.com/p/xar"
+distfiles="https://xar.googlecode.com/files/xar-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=4c5d5682803cdfab16d72365cf51fc4075d597c5eeaa8c7d1990fea98cdae3e6
+long_desc="
+ The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important
+ design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random
+ access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive to
+ allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle files
+ of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings for
+ individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for individual
+ files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability to query the
+ table of content's rich meta-data."
+
+post_install() {
+	vinstall LICENSE 644 usr/share/licenses/xar
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xar/xar-devel.template b/srcpkgs/xar/xar-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7f0117b21c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xar/xar-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Template file for 'xar-devel'.
+#
+noarch=yes
+depends="xar>=$version"
+short_desc="${short_desc} -- development files"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/include usr
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xar/xar.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/xar/xar.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..65ea245c9e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xar/xar.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+libbz2.so.1
+libz.so.1
+libcrypto.so.1
+libacl.so.1
+libxml2.so.2
+libm.so.6
+libc.so.6