diff --git a/community/bird/PKGBUILD b/community/bird/PKGBUILD
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+# $Id$
+# Maintainer: Sébastien Luttringer
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - Use -fno-strict-aliasing in flags
+
+pkgbase=bird
+pkgname=('bird' 'bird6')
+pkgver=1.3.11
+pkgrel=2.1
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+url='http://bird.network.cz/'
+license=('GPL2')
+depends=('readline' 'ncurses')
+source=("ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+        'bird.service'
+        'bird6.service')
+md5sums=('8ad2eb997fb8251bc5b24cf32619571b'
+         '69221e063a3f07dcad519d5eeacaae75'
+         '5b172bd052b523efd95ee018e891e181')
+
+build() {
+  cd $pkgbase-$pkgver
+  [[ -e _build4 ]] && rm -rf _build4
+  [[ -e _build6 ]] && rm -rf _build6
+  mkdir _build4 _build6
+
+  CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fno-strict-aliasing"
+  CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fno-strict-aliasing"
+
+  # build ipv4 bird
+  cd _build4
+  ../configure \
+    --prefix=/usr \
+    --sbindir=/usr/bin \
+    --sysconfdir=/etc \
+    --localstatedir=/var \
+    --docdir=/usr/share/doc/$pkgname
+  make
+
+  # build ipv6 bird
+  cd ../_build6
+  ../configure \
+    --prefix=/usr \
+    --sbindir=/usr/bin \
+    --sysconfdir=/etc \
+    --localstatedir=/var \
+    --docdir=/usr/share/doc/$pkgname \
+    --enable-ipv6
+  make
+}
+
+package_bird () {
+  pkgdesc='RIP, OSPFv2 and BGP daemon (ipv4 version)'
+  backup=('etc/bird.conf')
+
+  cd $pkgbase-$pkgver/_build4
+  make \
+    prefix="$pkgdir/usr" \
+    sysconfdir="$pkgdir/etc" \
+    sbindir="$pkgdir/usr/bin" \
+    localstatedir="$pkgdir/var" \
+    docdir="$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname" \
+    install
+  #make docdir="$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname" install-docs
+
+  # no /var inside pkg
+  rm -r "$pkgdir/var"
+
+  # systemd
+  install -D -m 644 "$srcdir/bird.service" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/bird.service"
+}
+
+package_bird6 () {
+  pkgdesc='RIP, OSPFv3, RADV and BGP daemon (ipv6 version)'
+  backup=('etc/bird6.conf')
+
+  cd $pkgbase-$pkgver/_build6
+  make \
+    prefix="$pkgdir/usr" \
+    sysconfdir="$pkgdir/etc" \
+    sbindir="$pkgdir/usr/bin" \
+    localstatedir="$pkgdir/var" \
+    docdir="$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname" \
+    install
+  #make docdir="$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname" install-docs
+
+  # no /var inside pkg
+  rm -r "$pkgdir/var"
+
+  # systemd
+  install -D -m 644 "$srcdir/bird6.service" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/bird6.service"
+}
+
+# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
diff --git a/community/bird/bird.service b/community/bird/bird.service
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+[Unit]
+Description=BIRD routing daemon
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=forking
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/bird
+ExecReload=/usr/bin/birdc configure
+ExecStop=/usr/bin/birdc down
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/community/bird/bird6.service b/community/bird/bird6.service
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+[Unit]
+Description=BIRD IPv6 routing daemon
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=forking
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/bird6
+ExecReload=/usr/bin/birdc6 configure
+ExecStop=/usr/bin/birdc6 down
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target