diff --git a/packages/libcap/libcap.mk b/packages/libcap/libcap.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92f6ee1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libcap/libcap.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+LIBCAP_PKGDIR = $(TARGET)/libcap
+LIBCAP_BUILDDIR = $(BUILD)/libcap
+LIBCAP_VERSION = 2.22
+LIBCAP_TAR = $(CACHE)/libcap-$(LIBCAP_VERSION).tar.gz
+# XXX: kernel.org was down when I wrote this, but is the canonical source
+LIBCAP_URL = http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libc/libcap2/libcap2_$(LIBCAP_VERSION).orig.tar.gz
+LIBCAP_SRCDIR = $(LIBCAP_BUILDDIR)/libcap-$(LIBCAP_VERSION)
+
+LIBCAP_LDFLAGS = -L$(CURDIR)/$(LIBCAP_SRCDIR)/libcap
+LIBCAP_CFLAGS = -I$(CURDIR)/$(LIBCAP_SRCDIR)/libcap/include
+
+$(LIBCAP_TAR):
+	mkdir -p $(@D)
+	wget -O $@ $(LIBCAP_URL)
+
+libcap-source: $(LIBCAP_BUILDDIR)/source
+$(LIBCAP_BUILDDIR)/source: $(LIBCAP_TAR)
+	mkdir -p $(@D)
+	zcat $< | ( cd $(@D) && tar xf -)
+	touch $@
+
+
+# This library's build sort of blows.
+libcap-build: $(LIBCAP_BUILDDIR)/built
+$(LIBCAP_BUILDDIR)/built: $(LIBCAP_BUILDDIR)/source
+	$(MAKE) -C $(LIBCAP_SRCDIR)/libcap _makenames
+	$(MAKE) -C $(LIBCAP_SRCDIR) CC=$(CC)
+	touch $@
diff --git a/packages/lxc/lxc.mk b/packages/lxc/lxc.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d37df2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/lxc/lxc.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+LXC_PKGDIR = $(TARGET)/lxc
+LXC_BUILDDIR = $(BUILD)/lxc
+LXC_VERSION = 0.7.5
+LXC_TAR = $(CACHE)/lxc-$(LXC_VERSION).tar.gz
+LXC_URL = http://lxc.sourceforge.net/download/lxc/lxc-$(LXC_VERSION).tar.gz
+LXC_SRCDIR = $(LXC_BUILDDIR)/lxc-$(LXC_VERSION)
+
+LXC_COMMANDS  = attach cgroup checkpoint console execute freeze
+LXC_COMMANDS += info init kill monitor restart start stop
+LXC_COMMANDS += unfreeze unshare wait
+
+LXC_PROGRAMS = $(addprefix $(LXC_SRCDIR)/src/lxc/lxc-, $(LXC_COMMANDS))
+
+
+# Prevents automake from mangling cross-compiled binary names
+LXC_CC_HOST := $(shell $(CC) -v 2>&1 | awk '/Target:/{print $$2}')
+LXC_CONF_OPT := --host=i386-unknown-linux-uclibc --program-transform-name=
+
+lxc-install: lxc-build
+
+$(LXC_TAR):
+	@ mkdir -p $(@D)
+	wget -O $@ $(LXC_URL)
+
+lxc-source: $(LXC_BUILDDIR)/source
+$(LXC_BUILDDIR)/source: $(LXC_TAR)
+	mkdir -p $(LXC_BUILDDIR)
+	zcat $(LXC_TAR) | (cd $(LXC_BUILDDIR) && tar xf -)
+	cp packages/lxc/utmp.c $(LXC_SRCDIR)/src/lxc/
+	touch $@
+
+lxc-build: $(LXC_BUILDDIR)/built
+$(LXC_BUILDDIR)/built: $(LXC_BUILDDIR)/source libcap-build
+	cd $(LXC_SRCDIR) && CFLAGS="$(LIBCAP_CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="$(LIBCAP_LDFLAGS)" ./configure $(CONFIG_XCOMPILE_FLAGS)
+	LD_RUN_PATH=/opt/lxc/lib $(MAKE) -C $(LXC_SRCDIR)
+	touch $@
+
+lxc-install: lxc-build
+	mkdir -p $(LXC_PKGDIR)/lib
+	cp $(LXC_SRCDIR)/src/lxc/liblxc.so $(LXC_PKGDIR)/lib
+
+	mkdir -p $(LXC_PKGDIR)/bin
+	cp $(LXC_PROGRAMS) $(LXC_PKGDIR)/bin
+
+#	$(call COPYTREE, packages/lxc/service, $(LXC_PKGDIR)/service)
+
+lxc-clean:
+	rm -rf $(LXC_BUILDDIR)
+
+
+LIBCAP_PKGDIR = $(TARGET)/libcap
+
+
+PACKAGES += lxc
diff --git a/packages/lxc/utmp.c b/packages/lxc/utmp.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b51ba2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/lxc/utmp.c
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/* Detecting runlevels from utmp is straight up bullshit, you.
+
+   1. runit doesn't have run levels
+   2. dbtl doesn't write utmp
+   3. even if it did, it doesn't have the glibc functions this code
+      wants
+*/
+int lxc_utmp_mainloop_add(struct lxc_epoll_descr *descr,
+			  struct lxc_handler *handler) {
+  return 0;
+}