diff --git a/base/s6/s6.cache b/base/s6/s6.cache
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c1a91c61a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/s6/s6.cache
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+
+[TIMESTAMP] 1318191419 Sun Oct  9 22:16:59 2011
+[BUILDTIME] 5 (5)
+[SIZE] 0.48 MB, 76 files
+
+[DEP] bash
+[DEP] binutils
+[DEP] bzip2
+[DEP] coreutils
+[DEP] diffutils
+[DEP] execline
+[DEP] fhs
+[DEP] findutils
+[DEP] gcc
+[DEP] glibc
+[DEP] grep
+[DEP] linux-header
+[DEP] make
+[DEP] sed
+[DEP] skalibs
+[DEP] sysfiles
+[DEP] tar
diff --git a/base/s6/s6.conf b/base/s6/s6.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b6cfe4504
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/s6/s6.conf
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+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../s6/s6.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2011 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+# GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+if [ "$prefix_auto" = 1 ]; then
+        prefix="usr"
+        set_confopt
+fi
+
+# execline is following slashpackage confentions
+srcdir=admin/$pkg-$ver
+
+s6_conf() {
+	pkgprefix -t execline
+	echo "$( pkgprefix -r libdir execline )" >> conf-compile/path-library
+	echo "$( pkgprefix -r libdir execline )" >> conf-compile/path-library.so
+	echo "$( pkgprefix -r includedir execline )" >> conf-compile/path-include
+
+}
+hook_add preconf 9 's6_conf'
+
+s6_portable_utils_install() {
+	cp -avp command/* $root$bindir
+	cp -avp library/* $root$libdir
+	cp -avp include/* $root$includedir
+	cp -avp doc/* $root$docdir
+}
+hook_add postmake 9 's6_portable_utils_install'
diff --git a/base/s6/s6.desc b/base/s6/s6.desc
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index 000000000..14785c73f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/s6/s6.desc
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+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+[COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+[COPY]
+[COPY] Filename: package/.../s6/s6.desc
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2011 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY]
+[COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+[COPY]
+[COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+[COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+[COPY] the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+[COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+[I] A small process supervision suite
+
+[T] s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process
+[T] supervision (a.k.a service supervision), in the line of daemontools and
+[T] runit.
+
+[U] http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/
+
+[A] Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>
+[M] Christian Wiese <chris@opensde.org>
+
+[C] base/system
+
+[L] ISC
+[S] Stable
+[V] 0.14
+[P] X -?---5---9 108.900
+
+[O] . $base/package/*/*/skaware-conf.in
+
+[D] 2312536650 s6-0.14.tar.gz http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/