diff --git a/sys-devel/openwatcom/ChangeLog b/sys-devel/openwatcom/ChangeLog
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4b22bb2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-devel/openwatcom/ChangeLog
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# ChangeLog for sys-devel/openwatcom
+# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
+# $Header: $
+
+  07 Nov 2010; Mario Fetka <mario.fetka@gmail.com> +metadata.xml:
+  initial checkin based on #206293
+
diff --git a/sys-devel/openwatcom/Manifest b/sys-devel/openwatcom/Manifest
index 2cd5c5ba..62640b88 100644
--- a/sys-devel/openwatcom/Manifest
+++ b/sys-devel/openwatcom/Manifest
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ AUX wmake_c_mglob.c.patch 480 RMD160 be5c09f70696a57f666e920e62c26267720fa900 SH
 DIST open_watcom_1.7.1-src.tar.bz2 26173755 RMD160 cc9bc3a5bf41a560058a4ffb3d55146cf9d4b40a SHA1 b9289221ffa8a595fcfce6a1a94bef5808bdf629 SHA256 14410438afd2d331e89dd2ae60a6e75e2db1251bba6f8a416a4b5987f8f4c712
 DIST open_watcom_1.8.0-src.tar.bz2 27013448 RMD160 19051fed3a323aa271634ef398f146cabe195158 SHA1 7ac7ac7c6ed986e85d0fc080d0a06f3130d64b8e SHA256 191b66783e02d28f0c8503e9f82f820883134648349d8c917cefacb850ca4aef
 DIST open_watcom_1.9.0-src.tar.bz2 27927922 RMD160 198f43cd08dd3f1829c6eb1f1ebfd00dca509403 SHA1 70922850abed798dc7c766eceb7797345a94f22e SHA256 6d303327988ee2dda60cfabebf3f45a9758aee4da117d41cf3153fccb7e5e4bf
-EBUILD openwatcom-1.7.1.ebuild 976 RMD160 17557938f2b84bec9275174308d36c8ef84ac48a SHA1 3db448fd4c896418b3e75169eb52b575be9b69ae SHA256 35842399003cfeb167f1c33129680732a308774694d45b0b3d0f4980f91465e6
-EBUILD openwatcom-1.8.0.ebuild 1028 RMD160 26b28f6f94ed0076823615f61653cfd35303a66a SHA1 3cb317b6956c06c290a40a48f0c4cd52ce3052e4 SHA256 4a83b019e0278244308cc8422e74517c8c5c3ce39cdea6312fc3ac98f0c8fba8
-EBUILD openwatcom-1.9.0.ebuild 1025 RMD160 c01edd8ba99aedafad9a877d573d5d6c44264020 SHA1 d82fa4f541001dcb7068ff403655c92124cd84bb SHA256 6c10562ac979ffc1ff2cc3ed38a3fb7bc94c18570bbf611e051026d4d837dd90
+EBUILD openwatcom-1.7.1.ebuild 969 RMD160 25ab08b4accce4bf8952663e8d0c1b4e06c7a5ad SHA1 d9f9a0a8e37e67e801e14e362dfe320ae04915e0 SHA256 702b7bcd3dfaffd4349d6b1ec7df918d0437cd2db98d2724e276081df80ad549
+EBUILD openwatcom-1.8.0.ebuild 1021 RMD160 686e54be3109dfed8a8a98785ee356d58c097ac5 SHA1 23a7e4b1ca4848ef5afd04807ef044773babc680 SHA256 927c251c78a09397cef6344972cbe40ce1a4a5bbba14bf5bc06f031742fdc6d9
+EBUILD openwatcom-1.9.0.ebuild 1018 RMD160 84875c85495ca2ac42ebc8e36c40c9850d461ed4 SHA1 2c6bb7b6d883f4e57564af46fd5fcc7758b9df88 SHA256 0254c717f97c64196fa3df43ccbacbf66088376df6670417fade0f31f48109cc
+MISC ChangeLog 223 RMD160 fbf2655842c47ac26995304732b75109ec388ea7 SHA1 c954260bf8abb8d3a98595c8fdb118d5de357e3a SHA256 eb57058bfe55945d97d23766de6bcd957b33441c19dcedbbef4c8e9810311a24
+MISC metadata.xml 1238 RMD160 c82938e77f387291d6a1c3bf9b0d802f2878dd12 SHA1 b5738f14922c69e78cfb867acdc65eeea25977bf SHA256 2c13f98be5fa8bdaf21ac86bcd00bbeb8944df5615de0cfce35ae4c00ef4b4d5
diff --git a/sys-devel/openwatcom/metadata.xml b/sys-devel/openwatcom/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..46a44e57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-devel/openwatcom/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+<?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>