diff --git a/app-misc/ovaldi/Manifest b/app-misc/ovaldi/Manifest
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+DIST ovaldi-5.8.1-src.tar.bz2 7763275 RMD160 7833481722888fd819a84f7c8d11a57e84f9ca16 SHA1 423654bb865148b803b5c8ce0c385d2bf8fcfcfa SHA256 f6d96eb1487ada99d539d9e178bd27744dfa0c15a7815db09f035ccaa60aabb0
+EBUILD ovaldi-5.8.1-r100.ebuild 2276 RMD160 b0be2e2f890d43f68edcb7a3a07ff46e12da3fa0 SHA1 4fb821b957760aef14e04456737de55f345c1fea SHA256 3aa632e8f396dc5aee549dce38dcd5f9f3b1a51dae9e4979b87d43da6104329e
diff --git a/app-misc/ovaldi/ovaldi-5.8.1-r100.ebuild b/app-misc/ovaldi/ovaldi-5.8.1-r100.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: $
+
+EAPI=1
+
+inherit eutils flag-o-matic
+
+DESCRIPTION="The OVAL Interpreter is a freely available reference implementation created to show how information can be collected from a computer for testing, to evaluate and carry out the OVAL Definitions for that platform, and to report the resultsof the tests. "
+HOMEPAGE="http://oval.mitre.org/language/download/interpreter/index.html"
+SRC_URI="http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ovaldi/${P}-src.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="OVAL"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="dev-java/xerces
+		dev-java/xalan
+		dev-libs/xalan-c
+		dev-libs/libpcre"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${P}-src"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd ${S}
+}
+
+src_compile () {
+	cd ${S}/project/linux
+	emake -j1 || "die emake failed"
+}
+
+src_install () {
+	cd ${S}/project/linux/Release || die "cd failed"
+	dobin ovaldi
+	into /
+	dodir /usr/share/ovaldi
+	addpredict /usr/share/ovaldi
+	insinto /usr/share/ovaldi
+	doins -r "${S}/xml"
+	cd ${S}/docs
+	dodoc {README.txt,terms.txt,version.txt,ovaldi.1} || die "docs failed"
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	einfo
+	einfo "The OVAL Interpreter collects system configuration data only available to a user with Administrator/root access"
+	einfo
+	ewarn
+	ewarn "SINCE THIS IS SENSITIVE INFORMATION, IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT THE 
+		   OVAL INTERPRETER DIRECTORY BE RESTRICTED TO ADMINISTRATOR ACCESS ONLY"
+	ewarn
+	einfo
+	einfo "OVAL Definitions are created and modified on a regular basis, 
+	therefore it is advised that you check the Data Files page on the OVAL Web Site 
+	before running the Interpreter to ensure that you are using the most up-to-date Definitions"
+	einfo
+	einfo "Data files page:"
+	einfo
+	einfo "http://oval.mitre.org/repository/download/index.html"
+	ewarn
+	ewarn
+	ewarn "The OVAL Interpreter is set up to validate that the Data file has not
+been tampered with by checking the MD5 hash (or checksum) generated from the
+data file on your computer with an MD5 hash provided by MITRE on the OVAL
+Web site"
+	ewarn "	You must supply the MD5 hash for the data file or use
+		the -m command to skip the MD5 check"
+	einfo
+	einfo ".xsd and .xsl files are located in /usr/share/ovaldi/xml "
+	einfo 
+}