diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info.inc b/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6eedb6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+SUMMARY = "Shared MIME type database and specification"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info"
+SECTION = "base"
+
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
+
+DEPENDS = "libxml2 intltool-native glib-2.0 shared-mime-info-native"
+DEPENDS_class-native = "libxml2-native intltool-native glib-2.0-native"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-mime-info-${PV}.tar.xz"
+
+inherit autotools pkgconfig gettext
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-update-mimedb"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/mime"
+FILES_${PN}-dev += "${datadir}/pkgconfig/shared-mime-info.pc"
+
+# freedesktop.org.xml is only required when updating the mime database,
+# package it separately
+PACKAGES =+ "shared-mime-info-data"
+FILES_shared-mime-info-data = "${datadir}/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml"
+RDEPENDS_shared-mime-info-data = "shared-mime-info"
+
+do_install () {
+	autotools_do_install
+
+	update-mime-database ${D}${datadir}/mime
+}
+
+do_install_class-native () {
+	autotools_do_install
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info/install-data-hook.patch b/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info/install-data-hook.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c9f1ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info/install-data-hook.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+fix shared-mime-info build race condition
+
+The definition of install-data-hook in Makefile.am leads
+to multiple, overlapping, executions of install-binPROGRAMS
+target.  We modify the definition to avoid that.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Joe Slater <jslater@windriver.com>
+
+--- a/Makefile.am
++++ b/Makefile.am
+@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ $(pkgconfig_DATA): config.status
+ @INTLTOOL_XML_RULE@
+ @INTLTOOL_DESKTOP_RULE@
+ 
+-install-data-hook: install-binPROGRAMS
++# do NOT make this dependent on anything!
++#
++install-data-hook:
+ if ENABLE_UPDATE_MIMEDB
+ 	$(DESTDIR)"$(bindir)/update-mime-database" -V "$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/mime"
+ endif
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info/parallelmake.patch b/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info/parallelmake.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..84c4d03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info/parallelmake.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+The Makefile used by shared-mime-info is one big race with the SUBDIRS 
+option and the dependency specifically calling make all combining to
+create multiple make instances all of which may try and build targets
+like update-mime-database.
+
+This patch removes those options meaning make can correctly identify
+dependencies and stop itself racing itself.
+
+RP 10/10/2011
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+Signed-off-by: Constantin Musca <constantinx.musca@intel.com>
+
+Index: shared-mime-info-1.0/Makefile.am
+===================================================================
+--- shared-mime-info-1.0.orig/Makefile.am
++++ shared-mime-info-1.0/Makefile.am
+@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
+-SUBDIRS=. po
+-
+ AM_CPPFLAGS = $(ALL_CFLAGS)
+ 
+ packagesdir = $(datadir)/mime/packages
+@@ -72,8 +70,7 @@ uninstall-hook:
+ 
+ all: $(defaultmakedeps)
+ 
+-create-pot:
+-	$(AM_V_GEN) $(MAKE) -C po shared-mime-info.pot
++create-pot: po
+ 
+ check: create-pot freedesktop.org.xml update-mime-database check-translations
+ 	if test -e $(top_builddir)/freedesktop.org.xml; then \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info_1.4.bb b/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info_1.4.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c4fde8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info_1.4.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+require shared-mime-info.inc
+
+SRC_URI += "file://parallelmake.patch \
+	    file://install-data-hook.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "16c02f7b658fff2a9c207406d388ea31"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "bbc0bd023f497dfd75e1ca73441cbbb5a63617d9e14f2790b868361cc055b5b1"