diff --git a/net-libs/gsoap/ChangeLog b/net-libs/gsoap/ChangeLog
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+# ChangeLog for net-libs/gsoap
+# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
+# $Header: $
+
+  22 Feb 2009; Mario Fetka <mario.fetka@gmail.com> +metadata.xml:
+  initial checkin based on #42174
+
diff --git a/net-libs/gsoap/Manifest b/net-libs/gsoap/Manifest
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 DIST gsoap_2.7.12.tar.gz 6537268 RMD160 18aeed686ee71b65abd6035a6dda46d5579cb972 SHA1 ea72438f751702d366fd066ce878c7f43874a07f SHA256 69a81c0c329bb8dbd8f117321879b5c38e1731cc937373953d8b66b0ea0712f6
 EBUILD gsoap-2.7.12.ebuild 1543 RMD160 6c8ec09d38abfd4711e226a1f3fb4fd1d3da49a2 SHA1 54228e0dc13cc3d8768b3cdf79dfee560d1c5bab SHA256 76bcfd0bd12dbccabbf5e656ea6c2a89d48c7540a2650685e7ba4630da3eeb8c
+MISC ChangeLog 216 RMD160 a726f85689a25f3348fc0db9661e3b432ebb7691 SHA1 164684757afba8f641c332f9e1ee3238fb1f40e1 SHA256 ae504c4ef5d870076bf9e132b1df0f6c41112e9694c0c0160c014fc51b56b86b
+MISC metadata.xml 1238 RMD160 c82938e77f387291d6a1c3bf9b0d802f2878dd12 SHA1 b5738f14922c69e78cfb867acdc65eeea25977bf SHA256 2c13f98be5fa8bdaf21ac86bcd00bbeb8944df5615de0cfce35ae4c00ef4b4d5
diff --git a/net-libs/gsoap/metadata.xml b/net-libs/gsoap/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<!-- 
+$Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/skel.metadata.xml,v 1.18 2008/07/28 19:27:05 cardoe Exp $
+
+This is the example metadata file.
+The root element of this file is <pkgmetadata>. Within this element a 
+number of subelements are allowed: herd, maintainer, and 
+longdescription. herd is a required subelement.
+
+For a full description look at:
+http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4
+
+
+Before committing, please remove the comments from this file. They are 
+not relevant for general metadata.xml files.
+-->
+<pkgmetadata>
+<herd>no-herd</herd>
+<maintainer>
+  <email>@gentoo.org</email>
+<!--  <description>Description of the maintainership</description> -->
+</maintainer>
+<!-- <longdescription>Long description of the package</longdescription> -->
+<!--
+<use>
+  <flag name='flag'>Description of how USE='flag' affects this package</flag>
+  <flag name='userland_GNU'>Description of how USERLAND='GNU' affects this
+	  package</flag>
+  <flag name='aspell'>Uses <pkg>app-text/aspell</pkg> for spell checking.
+	  Requires an installed dictionary from <cat>app-dicts</cat></flag>
+</use>
+-->
+</pkgmetadata>