diff --git a/eventlog/.footprint b/eventlog/.footprint
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/eventlog/.footprint
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+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/eventlog/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/eventlog/evtlog.h
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/eventlog/evtmaps.h
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/libevtlog.a
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libevtlog.la
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libevtlog.so -> libevtlog.so.0.0.0
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libevtlog.so.0 -> libevtlog.so.0.0.0
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libevtlog.so.0.0.0
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/pkgconfig/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/pkgconfig/eventlog.pc
diff --git a/eventlog/.md5sum b/eventlog/.md5sum
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+++ b/eventlog/.md5sum
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+51ac5bff610194ad57f3d632277bdf49  eventlog-0.2.7.tar.gz
diff --git a/eventlog/Pkgfile b/eventlog/Pkgfile
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+++ b/eventlog/Pkgfile
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+# Description: replacement of the simple syslog() API
+# URL:         http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system
+# Maintainer:  Thomas Penteker, tek at serverop dot de
+#
+# Depends on:
+
+name=eventlog
+version=0.2.7
+release=1
+source=(http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/$name-$version.tar.gz)
+
+build() {
+   cd $name-$version
+
+   ./configure \
+      --prefix=/usr \
+      --disable-nls \
+      --mandir=/usr/man
+
+   make && make DESTDIR=$PKG install
+   rm -rf $PKG/usr/doc
+}