diff --git a/app-arch/cpio/cpio-2.10.bep b/app-arch/cpio/cpio-2.10.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7daa2c9d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/cpio/cpio-2.10.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+DESCRIPTION="GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe." 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/cpio.html" 
+SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.10.tar.gz"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+BUILD {
+	cd cpio-2.10
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd cpio-2.10
+	make install
+}
diff --git a/app-arch/cpio/patches/cpio-2.10.patch b/app-arch/cpio/patches/cpio-2.10.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..345fdb451
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/cpio/patches/cpio-2.10.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+diff -urN cpio-2.10/configure.ac cpio-2.10-haiku/configure.ac
+--- cpio-2.10/configure.ac	2009-06-20 08:28:11.000000000 +0000
++++ cpio-2.10-haiku/configure.ac	2009-10-19 00:10:13.000000000 +0000
+@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
+ AC_HEADER_STDC
+ AC_HEADER_DIRENT
+ 
++AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gethostbyname, [socket, network])
++
+ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([fchmod fchown])
+ # This is needed for mingw build
+ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([setmode getpwuid getpwnam getgrgid getgrnam pipe fork getuid geteuid])
+diff -urN cpio-2.10/gnu/hash.c cpio-2.10-haiku/gnu/hash.c
+--- cpio-2.10/gnu/hash.c	2009-06-19 09:11:54.000000000 +0000
++++ cpio-2.10-haiku/gnu/hash.c	2009-10-19 00:32:02.000000000 +0000
+@@ -491,6 +491,7 @@
+ check_tuning (Hash_table *table)
+ {
+   const Hash_tuning *tuning = table->tuning;
++  float epsilon = 0.1f;
+   if (tuning == &default_tuning)
+     return true;
+ 
+@@ -499,7 +500,6 @@
+      fail to grow or shrink as they should.  The smallest allocation
+      is 11 (due to next_prime's algorithm), so an epsilon of 0.1
+      should be good enough.  */
+-  float epsilon = 0.1f;
+ 
+   if (epsilon < tuning->growth_threshold
+       && tuning->growth_threshold < 1 - epsilon
+--- cpio-2.10/src/makepath.c	2009-10-19 00:45:54.000000000 +0000
++++ cpio-2.10-haiku/src/makepath.c	2009-02-14 18:15:50.000000000 +0000
+@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
+   char *dirpath;		/* A copy we can scribble NULs on.  */
+   struct stat stats;
+   int retval = 0;
++  char *slash = dirpath;  
+   mode_t tmpmode;
+   mode_t invert_permissions;
+   int we_are_root = getuid () == 0;
+@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@
+       tmpmode = MODE_RWX & ~ newdir_umask;
+       invert_permissions = we_are_root ? 0 : MODE_WXUSR & ~ tmpmode;
+ 
+-      char *slash = dirpath;
+       while (*slash == '/')
+ 	slash++;
+       while ((slash = strchr (slash, '/')))