diff --git a/srcpkgs/lua-BitOp/template b/srcpkgs/lua-BitOp/template
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+# Template file for 'lua-BitOp'
+pkgname=lua-BitOp
+version=1.0.2
+revision=1
+makedepends="lua-devel>=5.2 lua>=5.2"
+hostmakedepends="lua>=5.2"
+depends="lua>=5.2"
+short_desc="C extension module for Lua which adds bitwise operations on numbers"
+maintainer="Tj Vanderpoel (bougyman) <tj@rubyists.com>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="http://bitop.luajit.org/"
+distfiles="${homepage}/download/LuaBitOp-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=1207c9293dcd52eb9dca6538d1b87352bd510f4e760938f5048433f7f272ce99
+build_style=gnu-makefile
+wrksrc="LuaBitOp-${version}"
+
+do_install() {
+	mod_path="${DESTDIR}$(lua installpath.lua bit)"
+	lua_path=$(dirname $mod_path)
+	install -dm0755 "$lua_path"
+	install -p bit.so "$mod_path"
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/lua-MessagePack/template b/srcpkgs/lua-MessagePack/template
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+# Template file for 'lua-MessagePack'
+pkgname=lua-MessagePack
+version=0.3.1
+revision=1
+hostmakedepends="lua>=5.2"
+makedepends="lua>=5.2"
+depends="lua>=5.2"
+short_desc="A pure Lua implementation of msgpack.org"
+maintainer="Tj Vanderpoel (bougyman) <tj@rubyists.com>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="https://github.com/fperrad/lua-MessagePack"
+distfiles="${homepage}/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=2cc1e2458d0f1eee8f02263848fa5055894303c056fd2e49aa9c3fb54ccbb5a0
+
+do_install() {
+	make PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}" LUAVER=5.2 install
+}
+
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/lua-lpeg/template b/srcpkgs/lua-lpeg/template
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+# Template file for 'lua-lpeg'
+pkgname=lua-lpeg
+_lualibname=lpeg
+version=0.12.1
+revision=1
+hostmakedepends="lua>=5.2"
+makedepends="lua-devel>=5.2"
+depends="lua>=5.2"
+short_desc="Pattern-matching library for Lua based on Parsing Expression Grammars"
+maintainer="Tj Vanderpoel (bougyman) <tj@rubyists.com>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/"
+distfiles="${homepage}/${_lualibname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+wrksrc=${_lualibname}-${version}
+checksum=60c6752dd043034c01929b04dab377d139f53bc098710cf735be53dd603fa22a
+build_style=gnu-makefile
+make_build_args=" LUADIR=${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include"
+
+do_install() {
+	install -Dm755 ${_lualibname}.so "${DESTDIR}"/usr/lib/lua/5.2/${_lualibname}.so
+	install -Dm644 re.lua "${DESTDIR}"/usr/share/lua/5.2/re.lua
+}