diff --git a/app-arch/rpm/ChangeLog b/app-arch/rpm/ChangeLog
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+# ChangeLog for app-arch/rpm
+# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
+# $Header: $
+
+  04 Nov 2008; Mario Fetka <mario.fetka@gmail.com> +metadata.xml:
+  Initial ch eckin
+
diff --git a/app-arch/rpm/Manifest b/app-arch/rpm/Manifest
index c103592d..ee664432 100644
--- a/app-arch/rpm/Manifest
+++ b/app-arch/rpm/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 DIST rpm-5.1.6.tar.gz 8305612 RMD160 88645f4a7c2e25fffaa5628d267e86eaac137b35 SHA1 3ab7d1edf333102c748c22e9144ab90d9719ab0b SHA256 82ee1a737bd77ddd90b0fe1e9a2f478c46033e451fac3881d00ab9e166951799
 EBUILD rpm-5.1.6.ebuild 2951 RMD160 1052b2f14972a43386465b13d2014b56f7575c67 SHA1 d7d7c2774abb8fb20c82e1585c81bb95c755d478 SHA256 fe358050f2138c6899e2846674299435c44a40bab562e271fe0c25b273e2e08b
+MISC ChangeLog 199 RMD160 2130e79d9cc9ba94b83596154beb5bbabc7e555a SHA1 1b170252a182a859e6f74162d7f6736b3eb72f30 SHA256 77b61b3743811c351aa71e4829cf0e289aeffbfc6b885259a3bf5f4243ae31a3
+MISC metadata.xml 170 RMD160 645927a396fdc21cdeb089fe42c5397332420ea6 SHA1 ac7f48a14fec325926f9ce1be8fbf1f311b4f2e4 SHA256 d797a2ec6f9dc516c9f9c1a758ee87ad3e8c43101b5dc76c2f872d5bd4639b42
diff --git a/app-arch/rpm/metadata.xml b/app-arch/rpm/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+<herd>maintainer-wanted</herd>
+</pkgmetadata>