diff --git a/lib/sde-package/new-debian.py b/lib/sde-package/new-debian.py
index 412c3cb..284da3b 100644
--- a/lib/sde-package/new-debian.py
+++ b/lib/sde-package/new-debian.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ cParse=cParseHTML()
 parse=cParse.parse	
 repo=None
 pkg=None
+bdescd=False
 parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage)
 parser.add_option("-b", "--base", dest="base",
 						help="""Change base i.e from 
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ for link in soup("a"):
         re.search('("|\').*("|\')',link).group())
         descd+=" " + buf.split("/").pop()
         descd+=" " + re.sub(buf.split("/").pop()+"$","",buf)
+        bdescd=True
 try:
 	descv="[V] " + re.sub("^.|.$","",re.search("\(.*\)",
 					str(soup("h1"))).group())
@@ -165,9 +167,6 @@ if options.outpkg:
 				sys.exit(1)
 		else:
 			os.mkdir(dir)
-		#outf=open(out,"w")
-		#outf.write(formatteddesc)	
-		#outf.close()
 	elif optcnt==2:
 		repository="package/" + output[0]
 		if not os.path.isdir(repository):
@@ -184,12 +183,19 @@ if options.outpkg:
 			os.mkdir(dir)
 	else:parser.error("Inavlid Option for --outpkg (-o)")
 	try:
+                os.system("echo -n 'Writing desc to file...'")
 		outf=open(out,"w")
 		outf.write(formatteddesc)	
 		outf.close()
+		os.system("echo 'ok'")
 	except:
 		print"Error writing to file " + out		
-	todo=""
+	if bdescd:
+            os.system("echo -n 'Patching cksum...'")
+            if os.popen("sde pkg up " + output[len(output)-1]+"&>/dev/null"):
+            	os.system("echo 'ok'")
+            else:os.system("echo 'failed'")
+        todo=""
 	for line in formatteddesc.split("\n"):
 		if re.search("^\[.\] TODO:",line):todo+="\n" + line
 	if not todo == "":
diff --git a/lib/sde-package/new-freshmeat.sh b/lib/sde-package/new-freshmeat.sh
index 4c6b8ec..3ce928d 100644
--- a/lib/sde-package/new-freshmeat.sh
+++ b/lib/sde-package/new-freshmeat.sh
@@ -170,6 +170,220 @@ Where <option> may be:
 fi
 
 
+dir=${1#package/} ; shift
+package=${dir##*/}
+if [ "$package" = "$dir" ]; then
+	echo "failed"
+	echo -e "\t$dir must be <rep>/<pkg>!\n"
+	exit
+fi
+
+rep="$( echo package/*/$package | cut -d'/' -f 2 )"
+if [ "$rep" != "*" ]; then
+	echo "failed"
+	echo -e "\tpackage $package belongs to $rep!\n"
+	exit
+fi
+
+rep=${dir/\/$package/}
+maintainer='The OpenSDE Community <list@opensde.org>'
+
+echo -n "Creating package/$dir ... "
+if [ -e package/$dir ] ; then
+	echo "failed"
+	echo -e "\tpackage/$dir already exists!\n"
+	exit
+fi
+if mkdir -p package/$dir ; then
+	echo "ok"
+else
+	echo "failed"
+	exit
+fi
+
+cd package/$dir
+rc="ROCK-COPYRIGHT"
+download_file=
+download_url=
+
+if ! read_fm_config $1; then
+    echo "Error or wrong freshmeat package name"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+echo -n "Creating $package.desc ... "
+cat > $package.desc <<EOF
+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# 
+# Filename: lib/sde-package/new-freshmeat.sh
+# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
+# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+# 
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+# 
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+# GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+#
+# Written by Benjamin Schieder <blindcoder@scavenger.homeip.net>
+#
+# Modified by Juergen Sawinski <jsaw@gmx.net> to create
+# a package based on freshmeat info.
+#
+# And Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de> to fix I/T sentences to begin with
+# capitals as well as no trailing . in the I tag.
+#
+# newpackage.sh [-main] <rep>/<pkg> <freshmeat package name>
+#
+
+extract_xml_name() {
+    local tmp="`tr -d "\012" < $2 | grep $3 |
+                sed -e "s|.*<$3>\([^<]*\)<.*|\1|" -e 's|
|\n|g'`"
+    eval "$1=\"\$tmp\""
+}
+
+get_download() {
+    local location
+    for arg; do
+	if curl -s -I -f "$arg" -o "header.log"; then
+	    location="`sed -n 's/\r// ; s/Location: *//p' header.log`"
+	    download_file="`basename $location`"
+	    download_url="`dirname $location`/"
+	    rm -f header.log
+	    return
+	fi
+    done
+    rm -f header.log
+}
+
+read_fm_config() {
+    local fmname=$1
+    curl_options="" #--disable-epsv -#
+    if curl -s -f $resume $curl_options "http://freshmeat.net/projects-xml/$fmname/$fmname.xml" -o "$fmname.xml"; then
+	extract_xml_name project $fmname.xml projectname_full
+	extract_xml_name title   $fmname.xml desc_short
+	extract_xml_name desc    $fmname.xml desc_full
+	extract_xml_name urlh    $fmname.xml url_homepage
+	extract_xml_name license $fmname.xml license
+	extract_xml_name version $fmname.xml latest_release_version
+
+	extract_xml_name url_tbz $fmname.xml url_bz2
+	extract_xml_name url_tgz $fmname.xml url_tgz
+	extract_xml_name url_zip $fmname.xml url_zip
+	extract_xml_name url_cvs $fmname.xml url_cvs
+
+	url="$(curl -I $urlh 2>/dev/null | grep "^Location:" | sed -e 's,^Location: \(.*\)$,\1,' | tr -d '\015' )"
+	get_download $url_tbz $url_tgz $url_zip #@FIXME $url_cvs 
+
+# grep trove categories for status IDs
+	for trove_id in `grep '<trove_id>' $fmname.xml | sed 's,.*<trove_id>\(.*\)</trove_id>,\1,g'` ; do
+		case $trove_id in
+			9) status="Alpha"
+				;;
+    			10) status="Beta"
+				;;
+			11,12) status="Stable"
+				;;
+			# there is no default
+		esac
+	done
+
+# download package fm-page and grep for the author
+	html="http://freshmeat.net/projects/$fmname/"
+	curl -I -s "$html" -o "header.log"
+	html_new="`grep Location: header.log | sed 's,Location:[ ]\([.0-9A-Za-z:/%?_= -]*\).*,\1,'`"
+	[ ! -z "$html_new" ] && html="$html_new"
+	unset html_new
+	rm -f header.log
+	curl -s "$html" -o "$fmname.html"
+	dev_name="`grep 'contact developer' "$fmname.html" | sed 's,^[[:blank:]]*\(.*\)[[:blank:]]<a.*$,\1,' | sed 's, *$,,g'`"
+	dev_mail="`grep 'contact developer' "$fmname.html" | sed 's,^.*<a href=\"mailto:\(.*\)\">.*$,\1,'`"
+	echo "__at__ @" >subst
+	echo "__dot__ ." >>subst
+	echo "|at| @" >>subst
+	echo "|dot| ." >>subst
+	echo "\\[at\\] @" >>subst
+	echo "\\[dot\\] ." >>subst
+	echo "(at) @" >>subst
+	echo "(dot) ." >>subst
+
+	echo -n "$dev_mail" >dev_mail
+# for some strange reason, this doesn't work:
+# cat subst | while read from to ; do 
+#         export dev_mail="${dev_mail// $from /$to}"
+# done
+# dev_mail will have the same value as before
+	cat subst | while read from to ; do 
+		dev_mail="`cat dev_mail`"
+		dev_mail="${dev_mail// $from /$to}"
+		echo -n "$dev_mail" >dev_mail
+	done
+	dev_mail="`cat dev_mail`"
+	rm -f subst $fmname.html dev_mail
+
+	if [ -z "$dev_name" ]; then
+		dev_name="TODO:"
+		dev_mail="Author"
+	elif [ -z "$dev_mail" ]; then
+		dev_name="TODO: $dev_name"
+		dev_mail="Mail Address"
+	else
+		dev_mail="<$dev_mail>"
+	fi
+
+	#cleanup license
+	case "$license" in
+	*GPL*Library*)
+	    license=LGPL
+	    ;;
+	*GPL*Documentation*)
+	    license=FDL
+	    ;;
+	*GPL*)
+	    license=GPL
+	    ;;
+	*Mozilla*Public*)
+	    license=MPL
+	    ;;
+	*MIT*)
+	    license=MIT
+	    ;;
+	*BSD*)
+	    license=BSD
+	    ;;
+	*Artistic*)
+	    license=Artistic
+	    ;;
+	esac
+	rm -f $fmname.xml
+    else
+	return 1
+    fi
+}
+
+if [ "$1" == "-main" ] ; then
+	create_main=1
+	shift
+fi
+
+if [ $# -lt 2 -o $# -gt 2 ] ; then
+	cat <<-EEE
+Usage:
+$0 <option> package/repository/packagename freshmeat-package-name
+
+Where <option> may be:
+	-main		Create a package.conf file with main-function
+
+	EEE
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+
 dir=${1#package/} ; shift
 package=${dir##*/}
 if [ "$package" = "$dir" ]; then
@@ -260,9 +474,17 @@ if [ "$download_file" ]; then
 
 	[D] 0 $download_file $download_url
 	EOF
+	echo "ok"
+	cd $SDEROOT
+	echo -n "Updating cksum... "
+	if ./bin/sde pkg up $package &> /dev/null;then
+		echo "ok"
+	else
+		echo "failed"
+	fi 
+	cd package/$dir
 fi
 
-echo "ok"
 echo -n "Creating $package.conf ... "
 
 if [ "$create_main" == "1" ] ; then
diff --git a/lib/sde-package/new.in b/lib/sde-package/new.in
index c4c7a58..ec3506e 100644
--- a/lib/sde-package/new.in
+++ b/lib/sde-package/new.in
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
 # GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-#set -x
+
 package_new() {
 	local method=
 	if [ "$1" = "-fm" ]; then
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ package_new() {
 		shift
 		exec python ./lib/sde-package/new-debian.py "$@"
 	fi
-
 	# new package
 	new_package="$1"; shift
 	if [ "$new_package" != "${new_package//\//}" ]; then
diff --git a/lib/sde-package/new.sh b/lib/sde-package/new.sh
index 05e6190..fac5f9f 100644
--- a/lib/sde-package/new.sh
+++ b/lib/sde-package/new.sh
@@ -137,8 +137,13 @@ ${package}_main() {
 custmain="${package}_main"
 EEE
 fi
-
 echo "ok"
+echo -n "Updating cksum... "
+if ./bin/sde pkg up $package &> /dev/null;then
+	echo "ok"
+else
+	echo "failed"
+fi
 echo "Remember to fill in the TODO's:"
 grep TODO $confdir/$package.*
 echo