diff --git a/srcpkgs/libcgroup-devel b/srcpkgs/libcgroup-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..24743e8b0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libcgroup-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libcgroup
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libcgroup/depends b/srcpkgs/libcgroup/depends
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a438b6d105
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libcgroup/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+abi_depends=">=0.37.1"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libcgroup/libcgroup-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libcgroup/libcgroup-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6bcc113676
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libcgroup/libcgroup-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Template file for 'libcgroup-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} - development files"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+Add_dependency run glibc-devel
+Add_dependency run libcgroup
+
+do_install()
+{
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libcgroup/template b/srcpkgs/libcgroup/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e318ea6b44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libcgroup/template
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Template file for 'libcgroup'
+pkgname=libcgroup
+version=0.37.1
+homepage="http://libcg.sourceforge.net"
+distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/libcg/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="Library that abstracts the control group file system in Linux"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="LGPL-2.1"
+checksum=0b08632de5d3641aa554b422d02a77d9367e57933328a8765204ad9588cd5c0d
+long_desc="
+ ${pkgname} aims to provide programmers easily usable APIs to use the
+ control group file system."
+
+subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
+Add_dependency run glibc
+Add_dependency run pam
+
+Add_dependency build flex
+Add_dependency build pam-devel
diff --git a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
index 86d36e6ecd..1bc1352d64 100644
--- a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
+++ b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
@@ -984,3 +984,4 @@ libcomposer.so.0		libevolution		evolution-devel
 libeutil.so.0			libevolution		evolution-devel
 libeshell.so.0			libevolution		evolution-devel
 libgsm.so			libgsm			libgsm-devel
+libcgroup.so.1			libcgroup		libcgroup-devel