diff --git a/sys-apps/rw/Manifest b/sys-apps/rw/Manifest
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+++ b/sys-apps/rw/Manifest
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+DIST rw-portable-1.0.tar.gz 12993 BLAKE2B a24bc3e79fc74235f211a187d660472cc567967b473763ffc47fda14dfe18d41b07db7ab6d5cf5c795b0e718c44c2b82de04c0f5d883c0c1343f31b433266b2d SHA512 b4358a8caad594dbfe7795008017c2ebaca498c9f843336cdb1d7e122e1c9be78b5c01a4ecf8c37f4238cb0ddbdacb1ba5e4281797113fa34b122e4ab3894a97
diff --git a/sys-apps/rw/metadata.xml b/sys-apps/rw/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>wolf@oriole.systems</email>
+		<name>Wolfgang Müller</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/sys-apps/rw/rw-1.0.ebuild b/sys-apps/rw/rw-1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=9
+
+DESCRIPTION="A dd replacement from the Sortix operating system"
+HOMEPAGE="https://sortix.org/rw/"
+SRC_URI="https://sortix.org/rw/release/${PN}-portable-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+MY_P="${PN}-portable-${PV}"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="ISC"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+src_install() {
+	emake PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR="${D}" install
+}