5 files changed, 68 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/create-src-info.sh b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/create-src-info.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..b5c235dcfcf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/create-src-info.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+[ -z "$1" ] && {
+  echo "Use $0 expression-basename download-page package-base-name"
+  echo "Like:"
+  echo "$0 default http://example.com/downloads hello"
+  exit 1;
+} >&2
+
+own_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; sh -c pwd)"
+
+cp "$own_dir/../builder-defs/template-bdp-uud.nix" "$1.nix" 
+sed -e "s@src-for-default.nix@src-for-$1.nix@g" -i "$1.nix"
+echo '{}' > "src-for-$1.nix"
+cat << EOF > src-info-for-$1.nix
+{
+  downloadPage = "$2";
+  baseName = "$3";
+}
+EOF
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/monit/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/monit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b8b2e2cbcdcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/monit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+a :  
+let 
+  s = import ./src-for-default.nix;
+  buildInputs = with a; [
+    bison flex openssl
+  ];
+in
+rec {
+  src = a.fetchUrlFromSrcInfo s;
+
+  inherit (s) name;
+  inherit buildInputs;
+
+  /* doConfigure should be removed if not needed */
+  phaseNames = ["preConfigure" "doConfigure" "doMakeInstall"];
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-ssl-incl-dir=${a.openssl}/include"
+    "--with-ssl-lib-dir=${a.openssl}/lib"
+    ];
+  preConfigure = a.fullDepEntry (''
+    sed -e 's@/bin/@@' -i Makefile.in
+  '') ["doUnpack" "minInit"];
+      
+  meta = {
+    description = "Monitoring system";
+    maintainers = [
+      a.lib.maintainers.raskin
+    ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-for-default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-for-default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f024801515fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-for-default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+rec {
+  advertisedUrl="http://mmonit.com/monit/download/../dist/monit-5.0.3.tar.gz";
+  version = "5.0.3";
+  url="http://mmonit.com/monit/download/../dist/monit-5.0.3.tar.gz";
+  hash = "1lw7qp5906cb9jg8ifhfy9cvv4gbd28mkapgfpx0klb17jdm7ljx";
+  name = "monit-5.0.3";
+  
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-info-for-default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-info-for-default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..691984a9fd5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-info-for-default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+  downloadPage = "http://mmonit.com/monit/download/";
+  baseName = "monit";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 407f9e47641c..ca381bac3698 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1016,6 +1016,12 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv ocaml zlib ncurses;
   };
 
+  monit = builderDefsPackage ../tools/system/monit {
+    flex = flex2535;
+    bison = bison24;
+    inherit openssl;
+  };
+
   mpage = import ../tools/text/mpage {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };