diff --git a/app-arch/tar/patches/tar-1.22.patch b/app-arch/tar/patches/tar-1.22.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cf426cb3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/tar/patches/tar-1.22.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -up tar-1.22/lib/string.in.h.orig tar-1.22/lib/string.in.h
+--- tar-1.22/lib/string.in.h.orig	2009-12-29 20:13:44.000000000 -0700
++++ tar-1.22/lib/string.in.h	2009-12-29 20:14:22.000000000 -0700
+@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
+ /* The attribute __pure__ was added in gcc 2.96.  */
+ # if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 96)
+ #  define __pure__ /* empty */
++#  define restrict __restrict
+ # endif
+ #endif
+ 
diff --git a/app-arch/tar/tar-1.22.bep b/app-arch/tar/tar-1.22.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a7176679e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/tar/tar-1.22.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+DESCRIPTION="tar saves and restores files from a tape or disk archive." 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/" 
+SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.tar.bz2"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="07fa517027f426bb80f5f5ff91b63585"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+BUILD {
+	cd tar-1.22
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd tar-1.22
+	make install
+}
diff --git a/app-arch/tar/tar.OptionalPackageDescription b/app-arch/tar/tar.OptionalPackageDescription
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d5b8091e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/tar/tar.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Package:	tar
+Version:	1.22
+Copyright:	1990-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+License:	GNU GPL v3
+URL:	http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
diff --git a/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen.OptionalPackageDescription b/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen.OptionalPackageDescription
index 785fa4e40..962baebd7 100644
--- a/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package:	Doxygen
 Version:	1.6.1
-Copyright:	1997-2009, Dimitri van Heesch
+Copyright:	1997-2009 Dimitri van Heesch
 License:	GNU GPL v2
 URL:		http://www.doxygen.org/
diff --git a/app-text/htmltidy/htmltidy.OptionalPackageDescription b/app-text/htmltidy/htmltidy.OptionalPackageDescription
index c539b5806..57dd7e2b7 100644
--- a/app-text/htmltidy/htmltidy.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/app-text/htmltidy/htmltidy.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package:	htmltidy
 Version:	20092812
-Copyright:	1998-2008, World Wide Web Consortium
+Copyright:	1998-2008 World Wide Web Consortium
 License:	MIT
 URL:		http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/dev-lang/ruby/Ruby.OptionalPackageDescription b/dev-lang/ruby/Ruby.OptionalPackageDescription
index 0b229d312..fb35bbb07 100644
--- a/dev-lang/ruby/Ruby.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/dev-lang/ruby/Ruby.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package:	Ruby
 Version:	1.9.1
-Copyright:	1993-2009, Yukihiro Matsumoto
+Copyright:	1993-2009 Yukihiro Matsumoto
 License:	Ruby
 License:	GNU GPL v2
 License:	GNU LGPL v2.1
diff --git a/dev-libs/libedit/libedit.OptionalPackageDescription b/dev-libs/libedit/libedit.OptionalPackageDescription
index af40b30ad..47d84da78 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libedit/libedit.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/dev-libs/libedit/libedit.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package:	libedit
 Version:	20090923
-Copyright:	1992-2009, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright:	1992-2009 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 License:	BSD (3-clause)
 URL:		http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
diff --git a/dev-util/cscope/cscope.OptionalPackageDescription b/dev-util/cscope/cscope.OptionalPackageDescription
index e2e48cd18..dbd938045 100644
--- a/dev-util/cscope/cscope.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/dev-util/cscope/cscope.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package:	cscope
 Version:	15.7a
-Copyright:	1998-2000, The Santa Cruz Operation
+Copyright:	1998-2000 The Santa Cruz Operation
 License:	BSD (3-clause)
 URL:		http://cscope.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/dev-util/global/global.OptionalPackageDescription b/dev-util/global/global.OptionalPackageDescription
index e79aae2d6..2f060c195 100644
--- a/dev-util/global/global.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/dev-util/global/global.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 Package:	global
 Version:	5.7.7
-Copyright:	2000-2007, Tama Communications Corporation
-Copyright:	2007-2009, Free Software Foundation
+Copyright:	2000-2007 Tama Communications Corporation, 2007-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License:	GPL v3
 URL:		http://www.gnu.org/software/global/
diff --git a/dev-util/idutils/idutils.OptionalPackageDescription b/dev-util/idutils/idutils.OptionalPackageDescription
index 56e1d8f7b..c97bf569e 100644
--- a/dev-util/idutils/idutils.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/dev-util/idutils/idutils.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package:	idutils
 Version:	4.2
-Copyright:	1986-2006, Free Software Foundation
+Copyright:	1986-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License:	GPL v2
 URL:		http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/
diff --git a/dev-util/patchutils/patchutils.OptionalPackageDescription b/dev-util/patchutils/patchutils.OptionalPackageDescription
index 28c038124..a45637726 100644
--- a/dev-util/patchutils/patchutils.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/dev-util/patchutils/patchutils.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package:	patchutils
 Version:	0.3.1
-Copyright:	2001-2009, Tim Waugh
+Copyright:	2001-2009 Tim Waugh
 License:	GPL v2
 URL:		http://cyberelk.net/tim/patchutils/
diff --git a/media-gfx/pngcrush/pngcrush.OptionalPackageDescription b/media-gfx/pngcrush/pngcrush.OptionalPackageDescription
index d85c70356..c569ec911 100644
--- a/media-gfx/pngcrush/pngcrush.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/media-gfx/pngcrush/pngcrush.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 Package:	pngcrush
 Version:	1.7.6
-Copyright:	1998-2009, Glenn Randers-Pehrson
-Copyright:	2005, Greg Roelofs
+Copyright:	1998-2009 Glenn Randers-Pehrson, 2005 Greg Roelofs
 License:	PNG
 URL:		http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/
diff --git a/sys-apps/groff/groff.OptionalPackageDescription b/sys-apps/groff/groff.OptionalPackageDescription
index 4fa084a65..ccf8aa8df 100644
--- a/sys-apps/groff/groff.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/sys-apps/groff/groff.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package:	groff
 Version:	1.20.1
-Copyright:	2003-2009, Free Software Foundation
+Copyright:	2003-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License:	GPL v3
 URL:		http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
diff --git a/sys-apps/man/man.OptionalPackageDescription b/sys-apps/man/man.OptionalPackageDescription
index 07b66947c..d4271844e 100644
--- a/sys-apps/man/man.OptionalPackageDescription
+++ b/sys-apps/man/man.OptionalPackageDescription
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package:	man
 Version:	1.6f
-Copyright:	1989-2009, Free Software Foundation
+Copyright:	1989-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License:	GPL v2
 URL:		http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/