diff --git a/bin/.gitignore b/bin/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..697cb9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+versionsort
diff --git a/bin/sde-check b/bin/sde-check
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0a973b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/sde-check
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: bin/sde-check
+# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2009 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 ---
+
+#Description: Check stuff
+
+[ -n "$SDEROOT" ] ||
+	export SDEROOT=$(cd "${0%/*}/.."; pwd -P)
+
+. "$SDEROOT/lib/libsde.in"
+. "$SDEROOT/lib/sde-wrapper-discriminator.in"
+
+command='check'
+
+if [ $# -eq 0 -o "$1" = "--help" ]; then
+	sde_wrapper_discriminator_help "$command"
+	exit 1
+else
+	discriminator=$(sde_wrapper_discriminator "$command" "$1")
+	if [ -z "$discriminator" ]; then
+		# no default discriminator
+		echo_error "$command: $1: Invalid discriminator."
+		sde_wrapper_discriminator_help "$command"
+		exit 1
+	else
+		shift;
+	fi
+fi
+
+exec "$SDEROOT/bin/sde-$command-$discriminator" "$@"
diff --git a/bin/sde-check-package b/bin/sde-check-package
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..da28f73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/sde-check-package
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: bin/sde-check-package
+# Copyright (C) 2009 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 ---
+
+#Description: Checks for possible updates of a list of packages
+#Alias: pkg
+
+[ -n "$SDEROOT" ] ||
+	export SDEROOT=$( cd "${0%/*}/.."; pwd -P )
+
+. "$SDEROOT/lib/libsde.in"
+. "$SDEROOT/lib/sde-package.in"
+
+cachedir="$SDEROOT/tmp/checkver"
+
+check_usage() {
+	local progname=$(echo ${0##*/} | tr '-' ' ')
+
+	[ $# -eq 0 ] || echo_error "$@"
+	cat <<-EOT
+	Usage: $progname <pkg>*
+	EOT
+
+	exit 1
+}
+
+# parse arguments
+shortopts='?'
+longopts='help'
+options=$(getopt -o "$shortopts" -l "$longopts" -- "$@")
+[ $? -eq 0 ] || check_usage
+
+eval set -- "$options"
+
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+	case "$1" in
+	--help)
+		check_usage
+		;;
+	--)
+		shift; break
+		;;
+	-*)
+		check_usage "$1: Not implemented"
+		;;
+	*)
+		break
+	esac
+	shift
+done
+
+# extract packages list
+#
+pkgs=
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+	x=$(package_parse "$1" | tr '\n' ' ')
+	if [ -n "$x" ]; then
+		pkgs="$pkgs $x"
+	else
+		check_usage "$1: Invalid package"
+	fi
+	shift
+done
+
+[ -n "$pkgs" ] || check_usage
+
+check_package_update() {
+	local pkg="$1" ver="$2" file="$3" dump="$4"
+	local prefix= suffix= x=
+
+	# case 1, version is obvious part of the name
+	prefix="${file%$ver*}"
+	if [ "$prefix" != "$file" ]; then
+		suffix="${file#$prefix$ver}"
+		# I feel lucky
+		matches=$(grep "^${prefix}.*${suffix//\./\\.}$" "$dump" | sort -u)
+		for x in $matches; do
+			y=$(echo "$x" | sed -e "s,^$prefix\(.*\)$suffix\$,\1,")
+			echo "$y"
+		done
+	fi
+}
+
+check_package() {
+	local repo="${1%/*}" pkg="${1#*/}"
+	local desc="$SDEROOT/package/$repo/$pkg/$pkg.desc"
+
+	local cvurl=$(package_desc_extract "$desc" CV-URL)
+	local ver=$(package_desc_extract "$desc" V)
+
+	local x= y= file= url= dump= found=
+
+
+	while read x file url; do
+		case "$url" in
+		-!*|!*)
+			file="${url##*/}"
+			url=$(echo "$url" | sed -e 's,^-\?!,,' -e 's,/[^/]*$,/,')
+			;;
+		-*)
+			url="${url#-}"
+			;;
+		esac
+
+		[ -z "$cvurl" ] || url="$cvurl"
+
+		x="${url%%:*}"
+		case "$x" in
+		http|https|ftp)
+			dump=$(echo "$url.out" | tr '?&:/ ' '_____')
+			dump="$cachedir/$dump"
+			lock "$dump"
+			[ -e "$dump" ] ||
+				"$SDEROOT/lib/sde-download/get-tokenized.sh" "$url" > "$dump" 2> "$dump.stderr"
+			unlock "$dump"
+
+			found=$(check_package_update "$pkg" "$ver" "$file" "$dump")
+			if [ -n "$found" ]; then
+				found=$("$versionsort" $found $ver | sort -u | tac | sed -e "s|^${ver//./\.}\$|*$ver*|" | tr '\n' ' ')
+				echo "$pkg: $ver ($url) $found"
+			else
+				echo_error "$pkg: nothing found. ($url)"
+			fi
+			;;
+		*)
+			echo_error "$pkg: $x not supported."
+			continue
+			;;
+		esac
+	done < <(package_desc_extract "$desc" D)
+}
+
+mkdir -p "$cachedir"
+
+# compile vsersionsort is missing
+#
+versionsort="$SDEROOT/bin/versionsort"
+if [ ! -x "$versionsort" ]; then
+	gcc -o "$versionsort" -Os -W -Wall "$SDEROOT/src/tools-source/versionsort.c" || exit $?
+fi
+
+for x in $pkgs; do
+	check_package "$x" &
+done < /dev/null
+wait