diff --git a/ack/PKGBUILD b/ack/PKGBUILD
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+#
+# Chakra Packages for Chakra, part of chakra-project.org
+#
+# maintainer (i686): Phil Miller <philm[at]chakra-project[dog]org>
+# maintainer (x86_64): Manuel Tortosa <manutortosa[at]chakra-project[dot]org>
+
+# include global config
+source ../_buildscripts/${current_repo}-${_arch}-cfg.conf
+
+pkgname=ack
+pkgver=1.94
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="A Perl-based grep replacement, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code"
+arch=('any')
+url="http://betterthangrep.com/"
+license=('GPL' 'PerlArtistic')
+depends=('perl-file-next')
+options=('!emptydirs')
+source=(http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
+md5sums=('dcf68e56bab0d394370fa102c7f08cb0')
+
+build() {
+  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
+  PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
+  make
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
+  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+}
diff --git a/perl-file-next/PKGBUILD b/perl-file-next/PKGBUILD
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+#
+# Chakra Packages for Chakra, part of chakra-project.org
+#
+# maintainer (i686): Phil Miller <philm[at]chakra-project[dog]org>
+# maintainer (x86_64): Manuel Tortosa <manutortosa[at]chakra-project[dot]org>
+
+# include global config
+source ../_buildscripts/${current_repo}-${_arch}-cfg.conf
+
+pkgname=perl-file-next
+_pkgname=File-Next
+pkgver=1.06
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc='File::Next - File-finding iterator'
+arch=('any')
+license=('GPL' 'PerlArtistic')
+url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/${_pkgname}"
+depends=('perl>=5.10.0')
+options=(!emptydirs)
+source=(http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/${_pkgname}-$pkgver.tar.gz)
+md5sums=('8d901b18e40c477acd18a6ea0fd7de64')
+
+build() {
+  cd "$srcdir/${_pkgname}-$pkgver"
+
+  PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
+  make
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd "$srcdir/${_pkgname}-$pkgver"
+
+  make install DESTDIR="$pkgdir"
+
+  find "$pkgdir" -name perllocal.pod -delete
+  find "$pkgdir" -name .packlist -delete
+}