diff --git a/app-emulation/qemu-init-scripts/Manifest b/app-emulation/qemu-init-scripts/Manifest
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+DIST qemu-init-scripts-0.3.0.tar.xz 4584 SHA256 c2deb393bac7690b6ea7118ee21f414c1a115c7e9b932ebd3282969bedaa4447 SHA512 49427572ce0636400ad3e389ed143fa9b1d637a7a89649cd5e265e409d3d745babe28f6af8cac3d9a249a8d5cc6554b321c0613f35824d604dcd814a44033c51 WHIRLPOOL 9752dab9172f1b26cdad6e5d1e29b5272878ce8c357fd1cba182afa98dd9c4d746ac57def8fac24a6ff9bb5c53ff3b7fe81495133bd6381a835d29659a6b68b8
diff --git a/app-emulation/qemu-init-scripts/metadata.xml b/app-emulation/qemu-init-scripts/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>dolsen@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Brian Dolbec</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>rafaelmartins@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Rafael Martins</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-emulation/qemu-init-scripts/qemu-init-scripts-0.3.0.ebuild b/app-emulation/qemu-init-scripts/qemu-init-scripts-0.3.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+DESCRIPTION="Kvm and qemu init scripts"
+HOMEPAGE="https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kvm-tools.git/"
+
+SRC_URI="http://dev.gentoo.org/~dolsen/releases/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT=0
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	app-emulation/qemu
+	|| ( net-misc/socat net-analyzer/netcat6 )"
+
+S="${PORTAGE_BUILDDIR}/work/${PN}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	epatch_user
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	newinitd "${S}/"qemu-init-script qemu
+	newconfd "${S}/"qemu-conf.example qemu.conf.example
+	newsbin "${S}/"qtap-manipulate qtap-manipulate
+	dosym qemu /etc/init.d/kvm
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "For bridging networking systems, you need these run time utilities:"
+	elog "    net-misc/bridge-utils"
+	elog "    sys-apps/usermode-utilities"
+	elog ""
+	elog "We will be updating these scripts to use"
+	elog "iptables exclusively in the future"
+}