diff --git a/srcpkgs/libyaml-devel b/srcpkgs/libyaml-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..c3fafe72a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libyaml-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libyaml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libyaml/depends b/srcpkgs/libyaml/depends
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..42a0b0f16d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libyaml/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+abi_depends=">=0.1.4"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libyaml/libyaml-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libyaml/libyaml-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..93b1f5ed2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libyaml/libyaml-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Template file for 'libyaml-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} - development files"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+Add_dependency run glibc-devel
+Add_dependency run libyaml
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+	vmove "usr/lib/*.a" usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libyaml/libyaml.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/libyaml/libyaml.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..631aa1dda4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libyaml/libyaml.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libc.so.6
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libyaml/template b/srcpkgs/libyaml/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..40684f0f11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libyaml/template
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Template file for 'libyaml'
+pkgname=libyaml
+version=0.1.4
+wrksrc="yaml-${version}"
+homepage="http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML"
+distfiles="http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-${version}.tar.gz"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="Fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="MIT"
+checksum=7bf81554ae5ab2d9b6977da398ea789722e0db75b86bffdaeb4e66d961de6a37
+long_desc="
+ LibYAML is a C library for parsing and emitting data in YAML 1.1, a
+ human-readable data serialization format."
+
+subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
+
+post_install() {
+	vinstall LICENSE 644 usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}
+}
diff --git a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
index c5e3acb2d9..c8afc767b3 100644
--- a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
+++ b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
@@ -926,3 +926,4 @@ libxdg-basedir.so.1		libxdg-basedir		libxdg-basedir-devel
 libev.so.4			libev			libev-devel
 libgvnc-1.0.so.0		gtk-vnc			gtk-vnc-devel
 libgtk-vnc-2.0.so.0		gtk-vnc			gtk-vnc-devel
+libyaml-0.so.2			libyaml			libyaml-devel