diff --git a/srcpkgs/apr-devel b/srcpkgs/apr-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..44d791e08f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apr-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+apr
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/apr/apr-devel.template b/srcpkgs/apr/apr-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5bdec1ec302
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apr/apr-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Template file for 'apr-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} - development files"
+long_desc="
+ ${long_desc}
+ 
+ This packages contains files for development, static files, headers, etc."
+
+Add_dependency run libuuid-devel
+Add_dependency run apr
+
+do_install()
+{
+	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/*.{a,exp} ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/pkgconfig ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/{include,bin,share} ${DESTDIR}/usr
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/apr/depends b/srcpkgs/apr/depends
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d4db4c87cf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apr/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+abi_depends=">=1.4.2"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/apr/template b/srcpkgs/apr/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a9178840a6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apr/template
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Template file for 'apr'
+pkgname=apr
+version=1.4.2
+distfiles="http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/apr-${version}.tar.bz2"
+build_style=gnu_configure
+configure_args="--with-devrandom=/dev/urandom
+--with-installbuilddir=/usr/share/apr-1/build"
+short_desc="Apache Portable Runtime Library"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+checksum=2017ca700694d09d2b0b21dd7c4d195e43a48735aac88526160c6195ee8f5391
+long_desc="
+ APR is Apache's Portable Runtime Library, designed to be a support library
+ that provides a predictable and consistent interface to underlying
+ platform-specific implementations."
+
+subpackages="apr-devel"
+
+Add_dependency run glibc
+Add_dependency run libuuid
+Add_dependency build libuuid-devel
diff --git a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
index 89f41e01c00..f3e3697e8dd 100644
--- a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
+++ b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
@@ -627,3 +627,4 @@ libLLVM-2.7.so			llvm			llvm-devel
 libLLVMHello.so			llvm			llvm-devel
 libLTO.so			llvm			llvm-devel
 libprofile_rt.so		llvm			llvm-devel
+libapr-1.so			apr			apr-devel