diff --git a/app-portage/findcruft/ChangeLog b/app-portage/findcruft/ChangeLog
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+# ChangeLog for app-portage/findcruft
+# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
+# $Header: $
+
+  01 Aug 2009; Mario Fetka <mario.fetka@gmail.com> +metadata.xml:
+  Initial chackin if the findcruft ebuild
+
diff --git a/app-portage/findcruft/Manifest b/app-portage/findcruft/Manifest
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 DIST findcruft-1.0.4.tar.bz2 16636 RMD160 73e0266e9a83bf7aacfd0a3a3659da179d23b040 SHA1 148f39c562cafccbc1d6f6a9ec0f66c811b381fe SHA256 6fde43f77b83f95dba65174de0505b2914f6fdabd583e039d1009902b21aeed7
 DIST findcruft-config-20050807.tar.bz2 8125 RMD160 3caf0db0f7931a72ad8d095bddf7e08fea222c71 SHA1 6dac7604b1029f1dce1777a1af592eda3f373a97 SHA256 12577badc39daa00a34ba9935a0a07371d80376bc3025cf43a46e17f86823b01
 EBUILD findcruft-1.0.4-r1.ebuild 879 RMD160 50974ded249249c30eca53ed01ff187d23a80ec3 SHA1 7f5de28737698df92c514d588ed802089f6bcbc6 SHA256 041a605ee8cd19c49d2ba5435486278652259ad914cac45285f2fc322168d63d
+MISC ChangeLog 231 RMD160 706b072c41e26af137e00da59025201d7b6f560a SHA1 e9d5d7ac1c5bb0eb8f0bb87ce9f60762dcae68e3 SHA256 6b1d562c22813e8601fd88d375a48c48ea9e83b1acd92b61f215c46836e2d010
+MISC metadata.xml 1238 RMD160 c82938e77f387291d6a1c3bf9b0d802f2878dd12 SHA1 b5738f14922c69e78cfb867acdc65eeea25977bf SHA256 2c13f98be5fa8bdaf21ac86bcd00bbeb8944df5615de0cfce35ae4c00ef4b4d5
diff --git a/app-portage/findcruft/metadata.xml b/app-portage/findcruft/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>