diff --git a/srcpkgs/mldonkey/template b/srcpkgs/mldonkey/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c553cb88cab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/mldonkey/template
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Template file for 'mldonkey'
+pkgname=mldonkey
+version=3.1.6
+revision=1
+_release="release-${version//./-}"
+wrksrc="${pkgname}-${_release}"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="autoconf camlp4 ocaml ocamlbuild wget"
+makedepends="bzip2-devel file-devel glib-devel ncurses-devel zlib-devel"
+depends="wget"
+short_desc="Multi-platform, multi-network p2p daemon"
+maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/"
+distfiles="https://github.com/ygrek/${pkgname}/archive/${_release}.tar.gz"
+checksum=632735d835c33d9815ae64aa8d4abb61b1bd8dd6c55ef66694f9254c97c2877d
+nopie=yes  # can't link against ocaml runtime else
+nocross=yes