diff --git a/srcpkgs/yacy/INSTALL b/srcpkgs/yacy/INSTALL
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index 00000000000000..3e2065e8168cbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/yacy/INSTALL
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# INSTALL
+case "$ACTION" in
+post)
+	chown -R _yacy:_yacy /var/lib/yacy
+	;;
+esac
diff --git a/srcpkgs/yacy/files/yacy/run b/srcpkgs/yacy/files/yacy/run
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index 00000000000000..9e86cdda959767
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/yacy/files/yacy/run
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+exec 2>&1
+exec chpst -u _yacy:_yacy /var/lib/yacy/startYACY.sh -f
diff --git a/srcpkgs/yacy/template b/srcpkgs/yacy/template
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+++ b/srcpkgs/yacy/template
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Template file for 'yacy'
+pkgname=yacy
+version=1.941
+revision=1
+hostmakedepends="apache-ant openjdk21 git"
+depends="openjdk21"
+short_desc="Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance"
+maintainer="Jason Elswick <jason@jasondavid.us>"
+license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
+homepage="https://yacy.net"
+distfiles="https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/archive/refs/tags/Release_${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=90e0bdef16893cdc5f0e812add1b977ee5fee34fa18ac56d4f6deba6fe521050
+system_accounts="_yacy"
+_yacy_homedir="/var/lib/yacy"
+make_dirs="/var/lib/yacy 0755 _yacy _yacy"
+
+do_build() {
+	export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/openjdk21"
+	ant all
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	vmkdir var/lib/yacy
+	vcopy ${wrksrc}/* var/lib/yacy
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vsv yacy
+}