diff --git a/extra/icedtea-web-java7/PKGBUILD b/extra/icedtea-web-java7/PKGBUILD
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+# $Id: PKGBUILD 136836 2011-09-02 07:59:01Z andyrtr $
+# Maintainer: Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - dropped firefox dep and configure option
+
+pkgbase=icedtea-web-java7
+pkgname=('icedtea-web-java7' 'icedtea-web-java7-doc')
+pkgver=1.3.2
+pkgrel=1
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+url="http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web"
+license=('GPL2')
+makedepends=('jdk7-openjdk' 'zip' 'libxtst' 'npapi-sdk' 'rhino' 'junit' 'chromium' 'epiphany')
+noextract=${pkgbase/-java7/}-$pkgver.tar.gz # due to broken path names in the tarball that fails with LANG=C in our chroot
+source=(http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/${pkgbase/-java7/}-$pkgver.tar.gz)
+md5sums=('94ce02c42c1e4d1411357fb3c1014f67')
+
+_javaver=7
+_jvmdir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-${_javaver}-openjdk
+
+build() {
+  # extract it
+  cd "$srcdir"
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 bsdtar -x -f ${srcdir}/${pkgbase/-java7/}-$pkgver.tar.gz
+
+  cd "${srcdir}"/icedtea-web*
+  ./configure --prefix=${_jvmdir} \
+      --datarootdir=/usr/share \
+      --with-jdk-home=${_jvmdir} \
+      --with-browser-tests \
+      --with-chromium=/usr/bin/chromium \
+      --with-epiphany=/usr/bin/epiphany
+   make
+}
+
+check() {
+  cd "${srcdir}"/icedtea-web*
+  # as more tests have been added some are expectged to fail
+  # see http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-March/017566.html
+  make -k check || /bin/true
+}
+
+
+package_icedtea-web-java7() {
+
+  pkgdesc="provides a Free Software web browser plugin running applets written in the Java programming language and an implementation of Java Web Start, originally based on the NetX project"
+  depends=('jre7-openjdk' 'desktop-file-utils')
+  provides=('java-web-start=7')
+  replaces=('icedtea-web')
+  install=${pkgname}.install
+
+  cd "${srcdir}"/icedtea-web* #${pkgname}-${_date}"
+  # possible make target (see bottom of Makefile.am: install-exec-local install-data-local
+  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install-exec-local install-data-local
+
+  # Install desktop files.
+  install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/{applications,pixmaps}
+  install -m644 javaws.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps
+  install -m644 {javaws,itweb-settings}.desktop ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications
+  # remove splitted doc files
+  rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc
+
+  # link binaries into /usr/bin + jre/bin
+  install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/usr/bin
+  install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/${_jvmdir}/jre/bin
+  pushd ${pkgdir}/${_jvmdir}/bin
+  for file in *; do
+    ln -sf ${_jvmdir}/bin/${file} ${pkgdir}/usr/bin
+    ln -sf ${_jvmdir}/bin/${file} ${pkgdir}/${_jvmdir}/jre/bin
+  done
+  popd
+
+  # link the mozilla-plugin - test it here http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml
+  install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
+  ln -sf ${_jvmdir}/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
+}
+
+package_icedtea-web-java7-doc() {
+
+  pkgdesc="icedtea-web browser plugin + Java WebStart - documentation files"
+  replaces=('icedtea-web-doc')
+
+  cd "${srcdir}"/icedtea-web*
+  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install-data-local
+  # remove javaws about and man page
+  rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/lib
+  rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share/man
+  rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icedtea-web # conflicting and unneeded file it seems
+}
diff --git a/extra/icedtea-web-java7/icedtea-web-java7.install b/extra/icedtea-web-java7/icedtea-web-java7.install
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+post_install() {
+  update-desktop-database -q
+}
+
+post_upgrade() {
+  update-desktop-database -q
+}
+
+post_remove() {
+  update-desktop-database -q
+}