diff --git a/srcpkgs/libfetch-devel b/srcpkgs/libfetch-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..bb26756bb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libfetch-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libfetch
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libfetch/depends b/srcpkgs/libfetch/depends
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1bce2af358
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libfetch/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+abi_depends=">=2.33"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libfetch/files/Makefile b/srcpkgs/libfetch/files/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..34f3b1d999
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libfetch/files/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+prefix = /usr
+DESTDIR =
+DEBUG = false
+FETCH_WITH_INET6 = true
+FETCH_WITH_OPENSSL = true
+
+WARNINGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wchar-subscripts \
+           -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
+
+CFLAGS  ?= -O2 -pipe
+
+CFLAGS  += -fPIC $(WARNINGS)
+CFLAGS  += -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGE_FILES
+CFLAGS  += -DFTP_COMBINE_CWDS -DNETBSD
+
+ifeq ($(strip $(FETCH_WITH_INET6)), true)
+CFLAGS  += -DINET6
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(strip $(FETCH_WITH_OPENSSL)), true)
+CFLAGS  += -DWITH_SSL
+LDADD   += -Wl,-lssl -Wl,-lcrypto
+endif
+
+INSTALL = install -c -D
+
+OBJS= fetch.o common.o ftp.o http.o file.o
+INCS= fetch.h common.h
+GEN = ftperr.h httperr.h
+MAN = libdownload.3
+
+all: libfetch.so libfetch.a
+.PHONY: all
+
+%.o: %.c $(INCS) $(GEN)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
+
+ftperr.h: ftp.errors Makefile errlist.sh
+	./errlist.sh ftp_errlist FTP ftp.errors > $@
+
+httperr.h: http.errors Makefile errlist.sh
+	./errlist.sh http_errlist HTTP http.errors > $@
+
+libfetch.so: $(GEN) $(INCS) $(OBJS)
+	rm -f $@
+	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LDADD) -shared -fPIC -o $@
+
+libfetch.a: $(GEN) $(INCS) $(OBJS)
+	rm -f $@
+	$(AR) rcs $@ $(OBJS)
+
+clean:
+	rm -f libfetch.so libfetch.a *.o $(GEN)
+.PHONY: clean
+
+install: all
+	$(INSTALL) -m 755 libfetch.so $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib/libfetch.so
+	$(INSTALL) -m 644 libfetch.a $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib/libfetch.a
+	$(INSTALL) -m 644 fetch.h $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/include/fetch.h
+	$(INSTALL) -m 644 fetch.3 $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/share/man/man3/fetch.3
+.PHONY: install
+
+uninstall:
+	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib/libfetch.so
+	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib/libfetch.a
+	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/include/fetch.h
+	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/share/man/man3/fetch.3
+.PHONY: uninstall
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libfetch/libfetch-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libfetch/libfetch-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c07c23400b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libfetch/libfetch-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Template file for 'libfetch-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} - development files"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+Add_dependency run openssl-devel
+Add_dependency run libfetch
+
+do_install()
+{
+	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/{include,share} ${DESTDIR}/usr
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/*.a ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libfetch/template b/srcpkgs/libfetch/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..823bc7fcfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libfetch/template
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Template file for 'libfetch'
+pkgname=libfetch
+version=2.33
+distfiles="ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
+build_style=gnu_makefile
+short_desc="File Transfer Library for URLs"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+checksum=3226f53d5ad29cc27510db968ef0d37bf4554b8aaaeadcd56e23067213b08943
+long_desc="
+ libfetch provides a high-level library for retrieving and uploading
+ files using Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)."
+
+subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
+Add_dependency run glibc
+Add_dependency run libssl
+Add_dependency build openssl-devel
+
+pre_build()
+{
+	cp ${FILESDIR}/Makefile ${wrksrc}
+}
diff --git a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
index 6279172a57..70092519ef 100644
--- a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
+++ b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
@@ -734,3 +734,4 @@ VBoxOGLhostcrutil.so		virtualbox-ose
 VBoxKeyboard.so			virtualbox-ose
 VBoxOGLrenderspu.so		virtualbox-ose
 VBoxOGLcrutil.so		virtualbox-ose-guest
+libfetch.so			libfetch		libfetch-devel