diff --git a/expat/.footprint b/expat/.footprint
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+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/xmlwf
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/expat.h
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/expat_external.h
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/libexpat.a
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libexpat.la
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libexpat.so -> libexpat.so.1.5.2
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 -> libexpat.so.1.5.2
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man1/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man1/xmlwf.1.gz
diff --git a/expat/.md5sum b/expat/.md5sum
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+ee8b492592568805593f81f8cdf2a04c  expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/expat/Pkgfile b/expat/Pkgfile
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+# Description: A fast, non-validating, stream-oriented XML parsing library
+# URL:         http://expat.sourceforge.net/
+# Maintainer:  Juergen Daubert, jue at crux dot nu
+
+name=expat
+version=2.0.1
+release=1
+source=(http://dl.sourceforge.net/$name/$name-$version.tar.gz)
+
+build() { 
+    cd $name-$version
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr
+    make
+    make prefix=$PKG/usr install
+}