diff --git a/srcpkgs/zutils/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/zutils/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4d7f3592f18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/zutils/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+zutils in Void use a capital first letter:
+Zcat Zcmp Zdiff Zegrep Zfgrep Zgrep Ztest Zupdate
diff --git a/srcpkgs/zutils/patches/cflags.patch b/srcpkgs/zutils/patches/cflags.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a8248935b42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/zutils/patches/cflags.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- configure.orig
++++ configure
+@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@
+ infodir='$(datarootdir)/info'
+ mandir='$(datarootdir)/man'
+ sysconfdir='$(prefix)/etc'
+-CXX=g++
+-CPPFLAGS=
+-CXXFLAGS='-Wall -W -O2'
+-LDFLAGS=
+ DIFF=diff
+ GREP=grep
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/zutils/template b/srcpkgs/zutils/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c4ec2f13459
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/zutils/template
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Template file for 'zutils'
+pkgname=zutils
+version=1.5
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="lzip"
+depends="bzip2 gzip lzip xz"
+conf_files="/etc/zutilsrc"
+short_desc="Utilities to deal with compressed files transparently"
+maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html"
+distfiles="http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.lz"
+checksum=0ea5aff71da22e967cd3508e2a99a60155d8df573d623cdc480476364ae708b2
+
+post_install() {
+	cd ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin
+	for f in z*; do
+		mv -v $f Z${f#z}
+	done
+	cd ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1
+	for f in z*; do
+		mv -v $f Z${f#z}
+	done
+}