diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common-0.6.3/autohell.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common-0.6.3/autohell.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f39b03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common-0.6.3/autohell.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+Patch obtained from OpenEmbedded.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com>
+
+--- sgml-common-0.6.3/bin/Makefile.am~autohell.patch	2001-01-30 15:42:21.000000000 +0100
++++ sgml-common-0.6.3/bin/Makefile.am	2004-06-17 11:51:11.000000000 +0200
+@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
+ primitive_scripts = sgmlwhich
+ 
+-bindir = $(prefix)/bin
+ bin_SCRIPTS = install-catalog $(primitive_scripts)
+ 
+ EXTRA_DIST =  install-catalog.in $(primitive_scripts)
+--- /dev/null	2003-09-23 19:59:22.000000000 +0200
++++ sgml-common-0.6.3/bin/sgmlwhich.in	2004-06-17 11:51:11.000000000 +0200
+@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
++#!/bin/sh
++# Location of the main configuration file for consistency with non-LSB platforms
++# Send any comments to Eric Bischoff <eric@caldera.de>
++# This program is under GPL license. See LICENSE file for details.
++
++echo "@sysconfdir@/sgml/sgml.conf"
++# Simple, isn't it? ;-)
+--- /dev/null	2003-09-23 19:59:22.000000000 +0200
++++ sgml-common-0.6.3/config/sgml.conf.in	2004-06-17 11:51:11.000000000 +0200
+@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
++SGML_BASE_DIR=@datadir@/sgml
++SGML_CATALOGS_DIR=@sysconfdir@/sgml
+--- sgml-common-0.6.3/configure.in~autohell.patch	2001-05-25 18:40:54.000000000 +0200
++++ sgml-common-0.6.3/configure.in	2004-06-17 11:53:22.000000000 +0200
+@@ -3,11 +3,6 @@
+ 
+ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(sgml-common, 0.6.3)
+ 
+-docdir='$(prefix)/doc'
+-AC_SUBST(docdir)
+-
+-dnl Checks for programs.
+-
+ dnl Checks for libraries.
+ 
+ dnl Checks for header files.
+@@ -18,6 +13,5 @@
+ 
+ AC_OUTPUT(Makefile \
+           bin/Makefile bin/install-catalog \
+-          config/Makefile \
+-          doc/Makefile doc/HTML/Makefile doc/man/Makefile doc/refentry/Makefile \
++          config/Makefile config/sgml.conf bin/sgmlwhich \
+           sgml-iso-entities/Makefile xml-iso-entities/Makefile)
+
+--- sgml-common-0.6.3/Makefile.am~no-docs	2001-05-25 18:22:01.000000000 +0200
++++ sgml-common-0.6.3/Makefile.am	2004-06-17 11:49:09.000000000 +0200
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-SUBDIRS = bin config doc sgml-iso-entities xml-iso-entities
++SUBDIRS = bin config sgml-iso-entities xml-iso-entities
+ 
+ sgmlcodir = $(prefix)/share/sgml
+ sgmlco_DATA = xml.dcl
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common-0.6.3/license.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common-0.6.3/license.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54b3f54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common-0.6.3/license.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+The COPYING file sgml-common ships with is just a symlink to
+/usr/share/automake/COPYING, which means we can't verify it
+using our normal means. We workaround this by using this patch
+to create our own license file. 
+
+Upstream was notified about this on 2011-01-24. When upgrading
+this recipe, this should be fixed and you should remove this
+patch.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com>
+
+diff -urN sgml-common-0.6.3.orig/LICENSE-GPLv2 sgml-common-0.6.3/LICENSE-GPLv2
+--- sgml-common-0.6.3.orig/LICENSE-GPLv2	1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
++++ sgml-common-0.6.3/LICENSE-GPLv2	2011-01-28 17:05:17.299528001 -0800
+@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
++Copyright (C) 1997 Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>.
++Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org>
++
++This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under
++the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
++Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
++version.
++
++This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without
++any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
++fitness for a particular purpose.  See the GNU General Public License
++for more details.
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common-native_0.6.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common-native_0.6.3.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5975365
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common-native_0.6.3.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+SUMMARY = "Base utilities for working with SGML and XML"
+DESCRIPTION = "The sgml-common package gathers very basic \
+stuff necessary to work with SGML and XML, such as xml.dcl, \
+a SGML declaration of XML; iso-entities, a list of the basic \
+SGML ISO entities; and install-catalog, a script used to \
+add entries to (or remove entries from) centralized catalogs \
+whose entries are pointers to SGML open catalogs, \
+as defined by OASIS."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+# See the comments in license.patch when upgrading this recipe.
+# This is inteded to be a temporary workaround.
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE-GPLv2;md5=ab8a50abe86dfc859e148baae043c89b"
+SECTION = "base"
+
+PR = "r1"
+
+require sgml-common_${PV}.bb
+inherit native
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/sgml-common-${PV}"
+
+SYSROOT_PREPROCESS_FUNCS += "sgml_common_native_mangle"
+SSTATEPOSTINSTFUNCS += "sgml_common_sstate_postinst"
+CLEANFUNCS += "sgml_common_sstate_clean"
+
+
+do_install_append() {
+	# install-catalog script contains hard-coded references to
+	# {sysconfdir}. Change it to ${D}${sysconfdir}.
+	sed -i -e "s|${sysconfdir}/sgml|${D}${sysconfdir}/sgml|g" ${D}${bindir}/install-catalog
+
+	${D}${bindir}/install-catalog \
+		--add ${D}${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat \
+		${D}${datadir}/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog
+
+	# The sgml-docbook.cat will be regenerated by sstate_postinst
+	rm -f ${D}${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat
+}
+
+sgml_common_native_mangle () {
+	# Revert back to ${sysconfdir} path in install-catalog
+	sed -i -e "s|${D}${sysconfdir}/sgml|${sysconfdir}/sgml|g" ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${STAGING_BINDIR}/install-catalog
+	# Change path from ${D}${datadir}/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog to ${datadir}/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog in sgml-ent.cat
+	sed -i -e "s|${D}${datadir}/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog|${datadir}/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog|g" ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat
+	# Remove ${D} path from catalog file created by install-catalog script
+	sed -i -e "s|${D}||g" ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${sysconfdir}/sgml/catalog
+}
+
+sgml_common_sstate_postinst() {
+	if [ "${BB_CURRENTTASK}" = "populate_sysroot" -o "${BB_CURRENTTASK}" = "populate_sysroot_setscene" ]
+	then
+		${bindir}/install-catalog --add ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat
+		if [ -e ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.bak ]; then
+			for catalog in `awk '{print $2}' ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.bak`; do
+				if [ ! `grep $catalog ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat 1> /dev/null 2>&1` ]; then
+					${bindir}/install-catalog \
+						--add ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat $catalog
+				fi
+			done
+		fi
+	fi
+}
+
+sgml_common_sstate_clean () {
+	# Ensure that the catalog file sgml-docbook.cat is properly
+	# updated when the package is removed from sstate cache.
+	if [ -f ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat ]; then
+		sed -i '/\/sgml\/sgml-ent.cat/d' ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common_0.6.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common_0.6.3.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6098673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/sgml-common/sgml-common_0.6.3.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+SUMMARY = "Base utilities for working with SGML and XML"
+DESCRIPTION = "The sgml-common package gathers very basic \
+stuff necessary to work with SGML and XML, such as xml.dcl, \
+a SGML declaration of XML; iso-entities, a list of the basic \
+SGML ISO entities; and install-catalog, a script used to \
+add entries to (or remove entries from) centralized catalogs \
+whose entries are pointers to SGML open catalogs, \
+as defined by OASIS."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+# See the comments in license.patch when upgrading this recipe.
+# This is inteded to be a temporary workaround.
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE-GPLv2;md5=ab8a50abe86dfc859e148baae043c89b"
+SECTION = "base"
+
+PR = "r1"
+
+SRC_URI = "ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/docbook-tools/new-trials/SOURCES/sgml-common-${PV}.tgz \
+           file://autohell.patch \
+           file://license.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "103c9828f24820df86e55e7862e28974"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7dc418c1d361123ffc5e45d61f1b97257940a8eb35d0bfbbc493381cc5b1f959"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+do_compile_append() {
+	# install-catalog script contains hardcoded references to /etc/sgml
+	sed -i -e 's|\([ "]\+\)/etc/sgml|\1${sysconfdir}/sgml|g' bin/install-catalog
+}
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/sgml"
+
+pkg_postinst_${PN}() {
+    if [ "x$D" = "x" ]; then
+	install-catalog \
+		--add ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat \
+		${datadir}/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog
+
+	install-catalog \
+		--add ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat \
+		${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat
+    else
+	if ! grep -q ${datadir}/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog $D${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat; then
+	    echo "CATALOG ${datadir}/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog" >> $D${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat
+	fi
+	if ! grep -q ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat $D${sysconfdir}/sgml/catalog; then
+	    echo "CATALOG ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat" >> $D${sysconfdir}/sgml/catalog
+	fi
+
+	if ! grep -q ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat $D${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat; then
+	    echo "CATALOG ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat" >> $D${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat
+	fi
+	if ! grep -q ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat $D${sysconfdir}/sgml/catalog; then
+	    echo "CATALOG ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat" >> $D${sysconfdir}/sgml/catalog
+	fi
+    fi
+}
+
+pkg_postrm_${PN}() {
+	install-catalog \
+		--remove ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat \
+		${datadir}/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog
+
+	install-catalog \
+		--remove ${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat \
+		${sysconfdir}/sgml/sgml-ent.cat
+}