diff --git a/develop/gdb/gdb.conf b/develop/gdb/gdb.conf
index 0bd434ddb..247614a1f 100644
--- a/develop/gdb/gdb.conf
+++ b/develop/gdb/gdb.conf
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../gdb/gdb.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2013 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 #
@@ -17,3 +18,11 @@ var_remove confopt " " "--enable-shared"
 var_remove confopt " " "--disable-static"
 hook_add inmake 5 "eval $MAKE -C gdb/doc install-info"
 
+pkg_gdb_postmake() {
+	# create directory where other packages should put gdb plugins
+	mkdir -p $root$datadir/gdb/auto-load$libdir
+	add_flist "$root$datadir/gdb/auto-load"
+	add_flist "$root$datadir/gdb/auto-load/$prefix"
+	add_flist "$root$datadir/gdb/auto-load$libdir"
+}
+hook_add postmake 5 'pkg_gdb_postmake'
diff --git a/develop/gdb/parse-config b/develop/gdb/parse-config
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eff86f48b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/develop/gdb/parse-config
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../gdb/parse-config
+# Copyright (C) 2013 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+# GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+# take care that no gdb dir is owned by a different package
+if [ "$pkg" != "gdb" ]; then
+	var_append flistdel "|" ".*/gdb$"
+	var_append flistdel "|" ".*/gdb/auto-load$"
+	var_append flistdel "|" ".*/gdb/auto-load/${prefix}$"
+	var_append flistdel "|" ".*/gdb/auto-load${libdir}$"
+fi