diff --git a/dev-R/pkgbuild/Manifest b/dev-R/pkgbuild/Manifest
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+DIST pkgbuild_1.3.1.tar.gz 31937 BLAKE2B 36aa0e9f4ae718728f389a3447f6865d52830b534a596ddf112d69ad56272af9f94da8af0ed0a5c6f8a5ca9eb7199baa2c3d8bc61c7f5bafd2ee126cc9f63628 SHA512 392e1937ee2145e15eef82d5b4900e72e274a70462a911adaf80f7a76e3cdb8533e134c4f15c596b8b8779fd4b9ba3021831e2c89cf5c727c993afd8a18e5ead
diff --git a/dev-R/pkgbuild/metadata.xml b/dev-R/pkgbuild/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
+		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">Provides functions used to build R packages. Locates compilers
+needed to build R packages on various platforms and ensures the PATH is
+configured appropriately so R can use them.</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Gábor Csárdi</name>
+			<email>csardi.gabor@gmail.com</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<remote-id type="github">r-lib/pkgbuild</remote-id>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/r-lib/pkgbuild/issues</bugs-to>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/pkgbuild/pkgbuild-1.3.1.ebuild b/dev-R/pkgbuild/pkgbuild-1.3.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+DESCRIPTION='Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages'
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/r-lib/pkgbuild
+	https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgbuild
+"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-R/cli
+	>=dev-R/callr-3.2.0
+	dev-R/desc
+	>=dev-R/withr-2.3.0
+	dev-R/R6
+	>=dev-lang/R-3.1
+	dev-R/crayon
+	dev-R/prettyunits
+	dev-R/rprojroot
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/covr
+	dev-R/cpp11
+	dev-R/Rcpp
+	dev-R/testthat
+"