diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index fe31a0853d..85bcc3b06f 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1189,3 +1189,4 @@ libOSMesa.so.8 libOSMesa-9.1_1
 libtaginfo.so.1 libtaginfo-0.1.3_1
 libtaginfo_c.so.0 libtaginfo-0.1.3_1
 libaa.so.1 aalib-1.4rc4_2
+libbsd.so.0 libbsd-0.4.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libbsd-devel b/srcpkgs/libbsd-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..657cd4da9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libbsd-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libbsd
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libbsd/libbsd-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libbsd/libbsd-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d5a084cecd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libbsd/libbsd-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Template file for 'libbsd-devel'.
+#
+depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}"
+short_desc="${short_desc} -- development files"
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+	vmove "usr/lib/*.a" usr/lib
+	vmove usr/share usr
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libbsd/template b/srcpkgs/libbsd/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..da4763e491
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libbsd/template
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Template file for 'libbsd'
+pkgname=libbsd
+version=0.4.2
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+subpackages="${pkgname}-devel"
+short_desc="Provides useful functions commonly found on BSD system"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+homepage="http://libbsd.freedesktop.org/wiki/"
+license="BSD"
+distfiles="http://libbsd.freedesktop.org/releases/libbsd-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=922b4885e0ccfd64b92fcacdb3fba18024fcab1e0c1b073f5ec0fe76388cbfdc
+long_desc="
+ This library provides useful functions commonly found on BSD systems, and
+ lacking on others like GNU systems, thus making it easier to port projects
+ with strong BSD origins, without needing to embed the same code over and
+ over again on each project."