diff --git a/app-arch/microtar/Manifest b/app-arch/microtar/Manifest
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/microtar/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST microtar-0.1.0.tar.gz 4843 BLAKE2B f2390759ea575f2acbd4eeeaa6394e7e41c225fd858b58b2d138e5fb39f6f633d0ade117bf2435892caac673582c27af68909e76106687b6e10c72fc9bcdf117 SHA512 87279cb52896eb8bda6e05962489f08c5368b9330fd0e094bf7b740b293497f460a6f8a2a2694d5a265d3217ee2f51d8443291df4854e5bd04e157605e6150ef
diff --git a/app-arch/microtar/metadata.xml b/app-arch/microtar/metadata.xml
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+++ b/app-arch/microtar/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+    <upstream>
+        <remote-id type="github">rxi/microtar</remote-id>
+    </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-arch/microtar/microtar-0.1.0.ebuild b/app-arch/microtar/microtar-0.1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="A lightweight tar library written in ANSI C"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/rxi/microtar"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/rxi/microtar/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+
+src_compile() {
+	tc-export CC
+	${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -I./src -fPIC -shared -Wl,-soname=libmicrotar.so src/microtar.c -o libmicrotar.so
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dolib.so libmicrotar.so
+	doheader src/microtar.h
+	dodoc README.md
+}