diff --git a/avahi.patches/avahi-50.description b/avahi.patches/avahi-50.description
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dddcede
--- /dev/null
+++ b/avahi.patches/avahi-50.description
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+This patch handles the absence of SOCK_CLOEXEC for sytems in which it is 
+not defined.
diff --git a/avahi.patches/avahi-50.patch b/avahi.patches/avahi-50.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b772a20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/avahi.patches/avahi-50.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+diff -aruN a/avahi-daemon/sd-daemon.c b/avahi-daemon/sd-daemon.c
+--- a/avahi-daemon/sd-daemon.c	2010-07-12 17:45:20.000000000 -0700
++++ b/avahi-daemon/sd-daemon.c	2010-09-08 09:52:29.000000000 -0700
+@@ -328,6 +328,11 @@
+ #if defined(DISABLE_SYSTEMD) || !defined(__linux__)
+         return 0;
+ #else
++# if defined(SOCK_CLOEXEC)
++		int sock_cloexec = SOCK_CLOEXEC;
++# else
++#  define sock_cloexec 0
++# endif
+         int fd = -1, r;
+         struct msghdr msghdr;
+         struct iovec iovec;
+@@ -353,7 +358,7 @@
+                 goto finish;
+         }
+ 
+-        if ((fd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0)) < 0) {
++        if ((fd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM|sock_cloexec, 0)) < 0) {
+                 r = -errno;
+                 goto finish;
+         }
diff --git a/avahi.patches/avahi-51.description b/avahi.patches/avahi-51.description
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..adbe41d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/avahi.patches/avahi-51.description
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This patch allows the package builder to override the D-Bus version from the command line.
diff --git a/avahi.patches/avahi-51.patch b/avahi.patches/avahi-51.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c93697
--- /dev/null
+++ b/avahi.patches/avahi-51.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff -aruN a/configure b/configure
+--- a/configure	2010-10-04 17:05:05.643932697 -0700
++++ b/configure	2010-10-11 13:35:22.000000000 -0700
+@@ -20221,7 +20221,6 @@
+ fi
+ 
+ 
+-DBUS_VERSION="Disabled"
+ DBUS_SYS_DIR="Disabled"
+ DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS="Disabled"
+ if test "x$HAVE_DBUS" = "xyes" ; then
+@@ -20321,7 +20320,9 @@
+ $as_echo "#define HAVE_DBUS 1" >>confdefs.h
+ 
+ 
+-    DBUS_VERSION=`$PKG_CONFIG dbus-1 --modversion`
++    if test "z$DBUS_VERSION" = "z"; then
++        DBUS_VERSION=`$PKG_CONFIG dbus-1 --modversion`
++    fi
+     DBUS_VERSION_MAJOR=`echo $DBUS_VERSION | awk -F. '{print $1}'`
+     DBUS_VERSION_MINOR=`echo $DBUS_VERSION | awk -F. '{print $2}'`
+     DBUS_VERSION_MICRO=`echo $DBUS_VERSION | awk -F. '{print $3}'`
diff --git a/avahi.tar.gz b/avahi.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07b6f66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/avahi.tar.gz
Binary files differ
diff --git a/avahi.url b/avahi.url
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5af5eb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/avahi.url
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+http://avahi.org/download/avahi-0.6.31.tar.gz
diff --git a/avahi.version b/avahi.version
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c35298
--- /dev/null
+++ b/avahi.version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.6.31