diff --git a/app-misc/sabayon-version/Manifest b/app-misc/sabayon-version/Manifest
index d5e20e669..a046d0e16 100644
--- a/app-misc/sabayon-version/Manifest
+++ b/app-misc/sabayon-version/Manifest
@@ -18,4 +18,5 @@ EBUILD sabayon-version-3.4.ebuild 784 RMD160 ed0c9553c99185cc925e977bcd18032b0fc
 EBUILD sabayon-version-3.5.1.ebuild 1028 RMD160 e05fe34def5c05f49555321373c4e1e32a7d65f1 SHA1 6571354379d09796b503a80a78de0b7d41360b0a SHA256 6eedd7cf0e380e43d18f4a4eae5b9d781bd520f2cc0a96947e314de860efa36b
 EBUILD sabayon-version-3.5.ebuild 1348 RMD160 c059ea6e99dae4e525cb9954c08b0962c2086fd0 SHA1 b6c8c64bbe6c1f520b4babe782ea62b8c1038f6c SHA256 06a9902327db81221a7494073bb3f7f8731d65ea3518fa5d61dcaa65dd9fd539
 EBUILD sabayon-version-4.ebuild 1028 RMD160 e05fe34def5c05f49555321373c4e1e32a7d65f1 SHA1 6571354379d09796b503a80a78de0b7d41360b0a SHA256 6eedd7cf0e380e43d18f4a4eae5b9d781bd520f2cc0a96947e314de860efa36b
+EBUILD sabayon-version-5-r1.ebuild 627 RMD160 b08629a89bc030239fc6c75681ea56bbb3a8e6ad SHA1 7d5a3359d4dec7a11c4da526ba3deae1ac6521fe SHA256 59ee689d9162521272b3bf46446cbd85226358c4e598ddb4e3972cce814d5fea
 EBUILD sabayon-version-5.ebuild 579 RMD160 26ebf68dab391a021fbfa6ea7dea50c9a4516ef3 SHA1 619cd6882e44bf57d3637f6b51c86a44421acc68 SHA256 699cc681a2f3e978daddb9bb01a5100c842fd2e1d5dbc80899f10461611ef199
diff --git a/app-misc/sabayon-version/sabayon-version-5-r1.ebuild b/app-misc/sabayon-version/sabayon-version-5-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9b404cfd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-misc/sabayon-version/sabayon-version-5-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Copyright 2004-2009 Sabayon Linux
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+DESCRIPTION="Sabayon Linux Release version file"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.sabayon.org/"
+SRC_URI=""
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="x86 amd64"
+IUSE=""
+SABAYON_VER="${PV}"
+SABAYON_HEADER="Sabayon Linux"
+SABAYON_RELEASE="sabayon-release"
+
+src_unpack () {
+	if use x86; then
+		echo ${SABAYON_HEADER}" x86 "${SABAYON_VER} > ${SABAYON_RELEASE}
+	else
+		echo ${SABAYON_HEADER}" amd64 "${SABAYON_VER} > ${SABAYON_RELEASE}
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install () {
+	insinto /etc/
+	doins sabayon-release
+	dosym /etc/sabayon-release /etc/system-release
+}