diff --git a/gradle/PKGBUILD b/gradle/PKGBUILD
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+# Maintainer:  Marty Plummer (The_NetZ) <ntzrmtthihu777 (at) gmail (dot) com>
+# Maintainer:  Simon Legner <Simon.Legner@gmail.com>
+# Maintainer:  Chris Molozian (novabyte) <chris DOT molozian AT gmail DOT com>
+# Contributor: Sanjuro Makabe (itti) <vuck AT gmx DOT de>
+pkgname=('gradle' 'gradle-doc')
+pkgver=1.12
+pkgrel=0
+arch=('any')
+url=("http://www.gradle.org/")
+license=('APACHE')
+source=("http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-${pkgver}-all.zip"
+        "gradle.sh")
+
+package_gradle(){
+  pkgdesc=("A powerful build system for the JVM")
+  # install profile.d script
+  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}"/etc/profile.d
+  install -m755 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.sh" "${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d/"
+  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+
+  # create the necessary directory structure
+  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}/bin"
+  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}/lib/plugins"
+  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}/init.d"
+  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
+
+  # copy across jar files
+  install -Dm644 lib/*.jar "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}/lib" || return 1
+  install -Dm644 lib/plugins/*.jar "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}/lib/plugins" || return 1
+
+  # copy across supporting text documentation and scripts
+  install -m644 NOTICE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}" || return 1
+  install -m644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}" || return 1
+  install -m644 *.txt "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}" || return 1
+  install -m644 *.html "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}" || return 1
+  install -m755 bin/gradle "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}/bin" || return 1
+  install -m644 init.d/*.* "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}/init.d" || return 1
+
+  # link gradle script to /usr/bin
+}
+
+package_gradle-doc() {
+  pkgdesc=("A powerful build system for the JVM (documentation and samples)")
+  options=('!strip')
+  optdepends=("gradle")
+  cd "${srcdir}/gradle-${pkgver}"
+
+  # create the necessary directory structure
+  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/gradle/doc/"
+  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/gradle/samples/"
+  # copy across documentation and samples
+  cp --recursive docs/* "${pkgdir}/usr/share/gradle/doc/"
+  cp --recursive samples/* "${pkgdir}/usr/share/gradle/samples/"
+}
+md5sums=('f957126d8e84d7ee7c859d02c2ae1fc1'
+         'd73a375d2796dfe4ec170f2f5af3a0c9')
+sha1sums=('ff641926092c64ffe6dc9ce3477d582b368fbaae'
+          '07239706341968f2929f412ed3a7b286c1e05b9d')
diff --git a/gradle/gradle.sh b/gradle/gradle.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env sh                                          
+export GRADLE_HOME=/usr/share/java/gradle                  
+export PATH=$PATH:$GRADLE_HOME/bin                       
+