diff --git a/app-backup/svnbackup/ChangeLog b/app-backup/svnbackup/ChangeLog
index f6b3fd3f..3cc47176 100644
--- a/app-backup/svnbackup/ChangeLog
+++ b/app-backup/svnbackup/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  07 Dec 2009; Mario Fetka <mario.fetka@gmail.com> +svnbackup-1.8.ebuild:
+  Bump
+
   07 Dec 2009; Mario Fetka <mario.fetka@gmail.com> svnbackup-1.6.ebuild:
   add amd64 arch
 
diff --git a/app-backup/svnbackup/Manifest b/app-backup/svnbackup/Manifest
index fda884ae..db395c0c 100644
--- a/app-backup/svnbackup/Manifest
+++ b/app-backup/svnbackup/Manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 AUX svnbackup.pod 1677 RMD160 f6bcc4b07f6f885a430c9054600e5d699211fd0b SHA1 360310b691ee540ce4158b6bd83a6cee519b2f41 SHA256 f975e83365a37bf7f407f4bc0bb9766a246b888897450dc632605bced0075eae
 DIST svnbackup-1.6.tar.gz 2312 RMD160 23a83fba7aabb94f80f4dc0e860e0d1709858c39 SHA1 610e5b67a09b43caaa8d3fa158a4facae9c97ca7 SHA256 f2e9afcae6a8d47d108894adedb8d4ed972e69a4751235352d9b695c2454223d
+DIST svnbackup-1.8.tar.gz 9029 RMD160 86f10d30683c73ce01672ef5d42dae3c2a4825b0 SHA1 75b633ffe89a0192231dc60a34b705e1865863b5 SHA256 0b873094481bfa028356634140d261342a884a589bdb5e34cbf5932e0af34eda
 EBUILD svnbackup-1.6.ebuild 665 RMD160 254545dc58b2be1225e40b8d1468b07dff0074b9 SHA1 6e1c9c6d68f461edc347dfbfe03b0f676c67e07f SHA256 971450ed7dc765d40364c1f45bed6d3f11f4f8ffe3a61cbc28d113b6c2f4bd9e
-MISC ChangeLog 386 RMD160 867029845f961706890139d44df8925b2289043a SHA1 63e11ced93692b8a6c3dc9222294f88ef6c2066c SHA256 29276327508684160f9d143258a8dcd9af9298a6ede9c86063c1df52153470e2
+EBUILD svnbackup-1.8.ebuild 665 RMD160 254545dc58b2be1225e40b8d1468b07dff0074b9 SHA1 6e1c9c6d68f461edc347dfbfe03b0f676c67e07f SHA256 971450ed7dc765d40364c1f45bed6d3f11f4f8ffe3a61cbc28d113b6c2f4bd9e
+MISC ChangeLog 468 RMD160 f4bb1a397fa4afe41793bb3259ecef11c4c6ff49 SHA1 cb78e54812d9196efcb499969173bcd57e03b88a SHA256 8f6d819d4c61b162f30e0539fd50668dd8632bd851f55185a8a36a92d2970891
 MISC metadata.xml 170 RMD160 645927a396fdc21cdeb089fe42c5397332420ea6 SHA1 ac7f48a14fec325926f9ce1be8fbf1f311b4f2e4 SHA256 d797a2ec6f9dc516c9f9c1a758ee87ad3e8c43101b5dc76c2f872d5bd4639b42
diff --git a/app-backup/svnbackup/svnbackup-1.8.ebuild b/app-backup/svnbackup/svnbackup-1.8.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6bc5a1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-backup/svnbackup/svnbackup-1.8.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: $
+
+DESCRIPTION="Subversion backup utilities"
+SRC_URI="http://svnautobackup.googlecode.com/files/${P}.tar.gz"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/svnbackup/"
+
+SLOT="0"
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64 -ppc -sparc -alpha"
+IUSE=""
+DEPEND="dev-lang/perl"
+
+src_compile() {
+	mkdir man
+	pod2man --section=1 "${FILESDIR}"/svnbackup.pod > man/svnbackup.1 || die "generation manpage for svnbackup.1 failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	newbin svnbackup.sh svnbackup
+	dosed "s:last_saved:/var/tmp/svnbackup_history:" /usr/bin/svnbackup
+	doman man/*
+}