diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index ff38a1f785..376f3775f6 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1483,3 +1483,4 @@ libxmlsec1.so.1 xmlsec1-1.2.19_1
 libcheck.so.0 check-0.9.12_1
 liblxc.so.1 liblxc-1.0.0_1
 libtcmalloc.so.4 gperftools-2.1_1
+libaio.so.1 libaio-0.3.109_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libaio-devel b/srcpkgs/libaio-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..99c0f70f36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libaio-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libaio
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libaio/template b/srcpkgs/libaio/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c7c46a7337
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libaio/template
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Template file for 'libaio'
+pkgname=libaio
+version=0.3.109
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-makefile
+short_desc="The Linux-native asynchronous I/O facility (aio) library"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="LGPL-2.1"
+homepage="http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html"
+distfiles="${DEBIAN_SITE}/main/liba/$pkgname/${pkgname}_${version}.orig.tar.gz"
+checksum=bf4a457253cbaab215aea75cb6e18dc8d95bbd507e9920661ff9bdd288c8778d
+
+do_install() {
+	make prefix=${DESTDIR}/usr install
+}
+
+libaio-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.a
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+	}
+}