diff --git a/dev-go/iochan/ChangeLog b/dev-go/iochan/ChangeLog
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+*iochan-0.0.1_alpha (24 Oct 2016)
+
+  24 Oct 2016; Manuel Friedli <manuel@fritteli.ch> +iochan-0.0.1_alpha.ebuild,
+  +metadata.xml:
+  dev-go/iochan:  added tagged version (0.0.1-alpha)
diff --git a/dev-go/iochan/Manifest b/dev-go/iochan/Manifest
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+DIST iochan-0.0.1_alpha.tar.gz 1788 SHA256 6b86d3bd86f0b9a7e50ead590c7e400c969a3c77e5e57175919826ba21b705a0 SHA512 d35e1dfb2595da6d4376cb97f330a6b50e6187151d324b7d92256c409294cd6623589ac05f446b8fbc333802616aec3b1f0c267bf24852eef859cb144509c3c9 WHIRLPOOL b60409835b45c2ceb81efb8fb2a2665e588cc7c121cd6ac1fe96655f02bd62940d2eb5d06b202ea5223030df61fa159d197ad06d97480da7e328055ddd726585
+EBUILD iochan-0.0.1_alpha.ebuild 488 SHA256 c15326f3e81a338596a65710f4b063f9b9ca4c1d7429b4384a0ceae9aede6534 SHA512 dcb8f15d08baa777a314df39a3f2ee45dc724713ef1cee6e4413e42a4afe5a4fa3bea84efce18e8073dbd95fa5b74884da1c9e2c5bdd0ecf95ed155a544e907d WHIRLPOOL 61072702066d569074a2ec48ca06a3f3db36190bd5d3f6244c742c47e11c58a002f019ce95699ffc6fdcd1cfdee7383dddf1659bd76975195f87706e54a4b2ca
+MISC ChangeLog 184 SHA256 4e2609ea049116d3b555188f1fb7744348c26d684ef86a9104cfab8423d5695e SHA512 9ddd00a0b0b1394c62f1d132581ceff457c2f62c94af69fa71936cfc89a895eb04cf0272d318fb166f4fc8c077cda7914a29a838d8183eda91c058174ff73ee1 WHIRLPOOL 2c1197d58e38b4c93c23dd88b7b60e50f274b1367596819d0713e51683ebb5cdd76633ebbb48f60719c54f2b06df7cfbed4ebdb49662a318df4daa694bc9bb74
+MISC metadata.xml 248 SHA256 7b43be15755627edf5c12cf1b50c607d781558640bf8375d685d51d7ade99a32 SHA512 29f9b96b0a77546cce6a8bffd82fae2fd0939d32a7a05ffd0d91f9250a019a3ddaa599b93988c82daabb9c4c4b284dd947e2c47f6ca7727b8539cffa91bcb8c2 WHIRLPOOL 993013c9878ead35469db13d3072f694a341ee654182e0c31d0678f5dd6de4bdc8d59a0b7bb6d685dc41ea6b55dac518cd8034131baea8002170c680e50304d1
diff --git a/dev-go/iochan/iochan-0.0.1_alpha.ebuild b/dev-go/iochan/iochan-0.0.1_alpha.ebuild
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+++ b/dev-go/iochan/iochan-0.0.1_alpha.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+inherit golang-build golang-vcs-snapshot
+
+EGO_PN="github.com/fritteli/iochan/..."
+MY_PV="v${PV/_/-}"
+ARCHIVE_URI="https://${EGO_PN%/*}/archive/${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DESCRIPTION="A Go library for turning io.Reader into channels"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/fritteli/iochan"
+SRC_URI="${ARCHIVE_URI}"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0/${PVR}"
+IUSE=""
diff --git a/dev-go/iochan/metadata.xml b/dev-go/iochan/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>manuel@fritteli.ch</email>
+		<name>Manuel Friedli</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>