diff --git a/mk/dist.mk b/mk/dist.mk
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+# rules to make a distribution tarball from a git repo
+# Copyright 2008 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
+
+GITREF?=	HEAD
+DISTPREFIX?=	${PROG}-${VERSION}
+DISTFILE?=	${DISTPREFIX}.tar.bz2
+
+CLEANFILES+=	${DISTFILE}
+
+dist:
+	git archive --prefix=${DISTPREFIX}/ ${GITREF} | bzip2 > ${DISTFILE}
diff --git a/mk/runlevels.mk b/mk/runlevels.mk
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+# Rules for installing runlevels
+# Copyright 2007-2008 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> 
+
+LEVELDIR=	${DESTDIR}/etc/runlevels
+BOOTDIR=	${LEVELDIR}/boot
+DEFAULTDIR=	${LEVELDIR}/default
+
+INSTALL?=	install
+
+all:
+
+install:
+	if ! test -d "${BOOTDIR}"; then \
+		${INSTALL} -d ${BOOTDIR} || exit $$?; \
+		for x in ${BOOT}; do ln -snf /etc/init.d/"$$x" ${BOOTDIR}/"$$x" || exit $$?; done \
+	fi
+	if ! test -d "${DEFAULTDIR}"; then \
+		${INSTALL} -d ${DEFAULTDIR} || exit $$?; \
+		for x in ${DEFAULT}; do ln -snf /etc/init.d/"$$x" ${DEFAULTDIR}/"$$x" || exit $$?; done \
+	fi
+
+clean: