diff --git a/initscriptsprov.diff b/initscriptsprov.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..abcb602
--- /dev/null
+++ b/initscriptsprov.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+Index: rpm-4.8.0/autodeps/linux.prov
+===================================================================
+--- rpm-4.8.0.orig/autodeps/linux.prov	2010-12-07 15:25:03.000000000 +0100
++++ rpm-4.8.0/autodeps/linux.prov	2010-12-07 18:08:04.078718111 +0100
+@@ -107,4 +107,9 @@ fi
+ [ -x /usr/lib/rpm/gstreamer-provides ] &&
+     printf "%s\n" "${filelist[@]}" | /usr/lib/rpm/gstreamer-provides | sort -u
+ 
++#
++# --- Provides of sysvinit scripts
++[ -x /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides.sysv ] &&
++    printf "%s\n" "${filelist[@]}" | /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides.sysv | sort -u
++
+ exit 0
+Index: rpm-4.8.0/scripts/find-provides.sysv
+===================================================================
+--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
++++ rpm-4.8.0/scripts/find-provides.sysv	2010-12-07 18:07:43.332842047 +0100
+@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
++#!/bin/sh
++
++#IFS=$'\n'
++while read file; do
++	case $file in
++          */etc/init.d/*)
++		provs=`grep '^# *Provides:' $file | sed 's,^.*:,,'`
++		for p in $provs; do
++			echo "sysvinit($p)"
++		done
++	  ;;
++        esac
++done
+Index: rpm-4.8.0/scripts/Makefile.am
+===================================================================
+--- rpm-4.8.0.orig/scripts/Makefile.am	2010-12-07 15:25:02.000000000 +0100
++++ rpm-4.8.0/scripts/Makefile.am	2010-12-07 15:29:01.862718365 +0100
+@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ rpmconfig_SCRIPTS = \
+ 	pkgconfigdeps.sh libtooldeps.sh \
+ 	ocaml-find-requires.sh ocaml-find-provides.sh \
+ 	fontconfig.prov desktop-file.prov \
++	find-provides.sysv \
+ 	rpmdb_loadcvt rpmdiff rpm2cpio.sh tcl.req tgpg 
+ 
+ rpmconfig_DATA = \
diff --git a/rpm.changes b/rpm.changes
index 21bfc44..1a2daec 100644
--- a/rpm.changes
+++ b/rpm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Dec  7 14:33:33 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add script to provide sysvinit(<PROV>) from /etc/init.d/*
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Nov 19 16:09:20 UTC 2010 - chris@computersalat.de
 
diff --git a/rpm.spec b/rpm.spec
index e26b8b7..2f73e68 100644
--- a/rpm.spec
+++ b/rpm.spec
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ Patch80:        fixsbits.diff
 Patch81:        pkgconfig-0.24.diff
 Patch82:        rpm-gst-provides.patch
 Patch83:        langnoc.diff
+Patch84:        initscriptsprov.diff
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 #
 # avoid bootstrapping problem
@@ -180,6 +181,7 @@ rm -f rpmdb/db.h
 %patch -P 60 -P 61 -P 62 -P 63 -P 64 -P 65 -P 66 -P 67 -P 68 -P 69
 %patch -P 70 -P 71 -P 72 -P 73 -P 74 -P 75 -P 76 -P 77 -P 78 -P 79
 %patch -P 80 -P 81 -P 82 -P 83
+%patch84 -p1
 #chmod 755 scripts/find-supplements{,.ksyms}
 #chmod 755 scripts/find-provides.ksyms scripts/find-requires.ksyms
 #chmod 755 scripts/firmware.prov