diff --git a/app-arch/xar/Manifest b/app-arch/xar/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..adb2e4c4d032ff6f7f153d9bd4e5b5514fedcd44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/xar/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+AUX xar-1.6.1-ext2.patch 689 SHA256 d72e72a800b9acec0c225f5cca01c1dc0310084772f641fa6a105a3981b2d6c0 SHA512 bf48f2474157e5b59dd575afa02bc928a941b9f175b251ef0c0dd7a5c3580daa8e5ab0a72e8724d1293169dab330b9b69b5eedaed12564cec50ee0de18f952e6 WHIRLPOOL e9e9f2a4d5bf8791fb44b2e3ac32a9a445f579d68a26de186233ac03fbbc30b2dccd5c52446721ae544f9962f881eab22efbc58f4af313842fd8a67074eedf83
+DIST xar-1.6.1.tar.gz 180771 SHA256 ee46089968457cf710b8cf1bdeb98b7ef232eb8a4cdeb34502e1f16ef4d2153e SHA512 6ddf83130519006c4d8fe699cdf5a6e5e41b293f3411d4744bf3425fda21556ef54b95e46f60c13f9276070ccda94c8d95a543f1fda4cbd9e3087ab9b5d0b00b WHIRLPOOL e7e77de1ff8aa089fe12c6eca0565f5f639e1d97653f5bfe968994a5236e12e8267d3ee082aa84e91561e395dd4b0b805bd5861c6ebff904b7f02f6d6b4be89e
+EBUILD xar-1.6.1-r1.ebuild 741 SHA256 1736d4698aafda3ef54676f7ddcde1c5e064bfc82a240f0433eddf6f4e8c82f5 SHA512 43931b88314e4eb092d3b2cc8eb8ef777aa4edc3bc6f61cdaa9a696ab82f7be8677dc58055f31cb22b37c6b06ac87aa919b2f9db392d93185eb9798ad4ffda2d WHIRLPOOL e4634258ce9470f9c09658fb671ee8cf426f39f35838aa8aee0eff6a72a3fb65774d18b2acfc655c1ce845b4bc42d0f88470cf01c9ccb56d97865e59a8f886d5
diff --git a/app-arch/xar/files/xar-1.6.1-ext2.patch b/app-arch/xar/files/xar-1.6.1-ext2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a13d4e7ebc1eca573c8bb0bba1958ffcacb5cd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/xar/files/xar-1.6.1-ext2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+--- lib/ext2.c.orig
++++ lib/ext2.c
+@@ -139,8 +139,10 @@
+ 	if(! (flags & ~EXT2_NOCOMPR_FL) )
+ 		x_addprop(f, "NoCompBlock");
+ #endif
++#ifdef EXT2_ECOMPR_FL
+ 	if(! (flags & ~EXT2_ECOMPR_FL) )
+ 		x_addprop(f, "CompError");
++#endif
+ 	if(! (flags & ~EXT2_BTREE_FL) )
+ 		x_addprop(f, "BTree");
+ 	if(! (flags & ~EXT2_INDEX_FL) )
+@@ -225,8 +227,10 @@
+ 	if( e2prop_get(f, "NoCompBlock", (char **)&tmp) == 0 )
+ 		flags |= EXT2_NOCOMPR_FL ;
+ #endif
++#ifdef EXT2_ECOMPR_FL
+ 	if( e2prop_get(f, "CompError", (char **)&tmp) == 0 )
+ 		flags |= EXT2_ECOMPR_FL ;
++#endif
+ 	if( e2prop_get(f, "BTree", (char **)&tmp) == 0 )
+ 		flags |= EXT2_BTREE_FL ;
+ 	if( e2prop_get(f, "HashIndexed", (char **)&tmp) == 0 )
diff --git a/app-arch/xar/xar-1.6.1-r1.ebuild b/app-arch/xar/xar-1.6.1-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cd014b23dc0ac3807cec730992236634e2d22b27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/xar/xar-1.6.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit autotools eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="An easily extensible archive format"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mackyle/xar"
+SRC_URI="mirror://github/mackyle/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
+IUSE="+bzip2 libressl"
+
+DEPEND="
+	!libressl? (
+		dev-libs/openssl:0=
+	)
+	libressl? (
+		dev-libs/libressl:0=
+	)
+	bzip2? (
+		app-arch/bzip2
+	)
+	sys-libs/zlib"
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}-ext2.patch"
+	eautoconf
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		$(use_with bzip2)
+}