diff --git a/packages/devel/libcap/build b/packages/devel/libcap/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..f75b52476a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libcap/build
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+
+setup_toolchain host
+
+make CC=$HOST_CC -C libcap _makenames
+
+setup_toolchain target
+
+make CC=$TARGET_CC
+
+$MAKEINSTALL
diff --git a/packages/devel/libcap/install b/packages/devel/libcap/install
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..77a393cec1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libcap/install
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
+  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/libcap/*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/devel/libcap/meta b/packages/devel/libcap/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d691b7fae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libcap/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="libcap"
+PKG_VERSION="2.19"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE=""
+PKG_URL="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS="attr"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain attr"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="devel"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="libcap: A library for getting and setting POSIX.1e capabilities"
+PKG_LONGDESC="As of Linux 2.2.0, the power of the superuser has been partitioned into a set of discrete capabilities (in other places, these capabilities are know as privileges). The contents of the libcap package are a library and a number of simple programs that are intended to show how an application/daemon can be protected (with wrappers) or rewritten to take advantage of this fine grained approach to constraining the danger to your system from programs running as 'root'."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"