diff --git a/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/0001-fix-abuild-tar.static-target.patch b/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/0001-fix-abuild-tar.static-target.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..79b35439f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/0001-fix-abuild-tar.static-target.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From d4d3f5bcfcc9a11aadc3de3199dd681b195ec574 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: pmb-test <pmb-test@pmb-test>
+Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:06:45 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 1/3] fix abuild-tar.static target
+
+---
+ Makefile | 3 ++-
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index b5997a4..d2445f3 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ OBJS-abuild-tar  = abuild-tar.o
+ CFLAGS-abuild-tar.o = $(SSL_CFLAGS)
+ LDFLAGS-abuild-tar = $(SSL_LDFLAGS)
+ LIBS-abuild-tar = $(SSL_LIBS)
++LIBS-abuild-tar.static = $(LIBS-abuild-tar)
+ 
+ OBJS-abuild-gzsplit = abuild-gzsplit.o
+ LDFLAGS-abuild-gzsplit = $(ZLIB_LIBS)
+@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ abuild-gzsplit: abuild-gzsplit.o
+ 	$(LINK)
+ 
+ abuild-tar.static: abuild-tar.o
+-	$(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS-$@) -o $@ -static $(LIBS-$@) $^
++	$(CC) -static $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS-$@) $^ -o $@ $(LIBS-$@)
+ 
+ help:
+ 	@echo "$(P) makefile"
+-- 
+2.17.2
+
diff --git a/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/0002-add-abuild-sign.noinclude-target.patch b/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/0002-add-abuild-sign.noinclude-target.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dea1e16fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/0002-add-abuild-sign.noinclude-target.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+From 799ae8a118c7f1f7585217fb4827387ef0a882b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: pmb-test <pmb-test@pmb-test>
+Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:26:12 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 2/3] add abuild-sign.noinclude target
+
+---
+ Makefile       | 11 +++++++++++
+ abuild-sign.in |  8 +-------
+ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index d2445f3..eeb0d5b 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -64,6 +64,17 @@ OBJS-abuild-fetch = abuild-fetch.o
+ 	${SED} ${SED_REPLACE} ${SED_EXTRA} $< > $@
+ 	${CHMOD} +x $@
+ 
++abuild-sign.noinclude: abuild-sign functions.sh
++	[ -e "$@" ] && rm "$@" || true
++	while IFS="" read -r line; do \
++		if [ "$$line" = "@FUNCTIONS_SH@" ]; then  \
++			cat functions.sh >> "$@"; \
++		else \
++			echo "$$line" >> "$@"; \
++		fi; \
++	done < "$<"
++	chmod +x "$@"
++
+ P=$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)
+ 
+ all:	$(USR_BIN_FILES) functions.sh
+diff --git a/abuild-sign.in b/abuild-sign.in
+index 7b5b6db..c74bc12 100644
+--- a/abuild-sign.in
++++ b/abuild-sign.in
+@@ -7,13 +7,7 @@
+ #
+ 
+ program_version=@VERSION@
+-datadir=@datadir@
+-
+-if ! [ -f "$datadir/functions.sh" ]; then
+-	echo "$datadir/functions.sh: not found" >&2
+-	exit 1
+-fi
+-. "$datadir/functions.sh"
++@FUNCTIONS_SH@
+ 
+ do_sign() {
+ 	local f i keyname repo
+-- 
+2.17.2
+
diff --git a/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/0003-use-abuild-tar.static-from-script-directory.patch b/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/0003-use-abuild-tar.static-from-script-directory.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f7488ce61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/0003-use-abuild-tar.static-from-script-directory.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From ce55a041d522ac43f6590e45e248033dc4650eb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: pmb-test <pmb-test@pmb-test>
+Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:32:11 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 3/3] use abuild-tar.static from script directory
+
+---
+ abuild-sign.in | 5 ++++-
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/abuild-sign.in b/abuild-sign.in
+index c74bc12..c6d820d 100644
+--- a/abuild-sign.in
++++ b/abuild-sign.in
+@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
+ program_version=@VERSION@
+ @FUNCTIONS_SH@
+ 
++# abuild-tar.static: from script dir
++abuildtar="$(cd $(dirname "$0") && pwd)/abuild-tar.static"
++
+ do_sign() {
+ 	local f i keyname repo
+ 
+@@ -25,7 +28,7 @@ do_sign() {
+ 		sig=".SIGN.RSA.$keyname"
+ 		openssl dgst -sha1 -sign "$privkey" -out "$sig" "$i"
+ 		tmptargz=$(mktemp)
+-		tar -f - -c "$sig" | abuild-tar --cut | gzip -9 > "$tmptargz"
++		tar -f - -c "$sig" | $abuildtar --cut | gzip -9 > "$tmptargz"
+ 		tmpsigned=$(mktemp)
+ 		cat "$tmptargz" "$i" > "$tmpsigned"
+ 		rm -f "$tmptargz" "$sig"
+-- 
+2.17.2
+
diff --git a/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/APKBUILD b/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/APKBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..14cccbec3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/abuild-sign-noinclude/APKBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+pkgname=abuild-sign-noinclude
+pkgver=3.3.0_pre1
+pkgrel=0
+pkgdesc="self-contained abuild-sign to be used by non-Alpine systems"
+url="https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/abuild/"
+arch="x86_64"
+license="GPL-2.0"
+makedepends="openssl-dev zlib-dev pkgconf"
+options="!check"
+
+# first patch is being upstreamed here:
+# https://github.com/alpinelinux/abuild/pull/49
+source="https://dev.alpinelinux.org/archive/abuild/abuild-${pkgver}.tar.xz
+    0001-fix-abuild-tar.static-target.patch
+    0002-add-abuild-sign.noinclude-target.patch
+    0003-use-abuild-tar.static-from-script-directory.patch"
+builddir="$srcdir/abuild-$pkgver"
+
+prepare() {
+	default_prepare
+
+	cd "$builddir"
+	sed -i -e "/^CHOST=/s/=.*/=$CHOST/" abuild.conf
+}
+
+build() {
+	cd "$builddir"
+	make VERSION="$pkgver-r$pkgrel" abuild-tar.static abuild-sign.noinclude
+}
+
+package() {
+	cd "$builddir"
+	install -Dm755 abuild-tar.static "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/abuild-tar.static
+	install -Dm755 abuild-sign.noinclude "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/abuild-sign.noinclude
+}
+
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