diff --git a/ros/kinetic/catkin/APKBUILD b/ros/kinetic/catkin/APKBUILD
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+++ b/ros/kinetic/catkin/APKBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+pkgname=ros-kinetic-catkin
+_pkgname=catkin
+pkgver=0.7.14
+pkgrel=0
+pkgdesc="$_pkgname package for ROS kinetic"
+url="http://www.ros.org/wiki/catkin"
+arch="all"
+license="BSD"
+depends="py2-argparse py2-catkin-pkg cmake gmock-dev gtest-dev gtest py2-empy py2-nose py2-argparse py2-catkin-pkg"
+makedepends="py-setuptools py-rosdep py-rosinstall py-rosinstall-generator py-wstool cmake py2-empy py2-argparse py2-catkin-pkg py2-mock py2-nose"
+subpackages=""
+source=""
+builddir="$startdir/apk-build-temporary"
+srcdir="/tmp/dummy-src-dir"
+buildlog="$builddir/ros-abuild-build.log"
+checklog="$builddir/ros-abuild-check.log"
+statuslog="$builddir/ros-abuild-status.log"
+if [ x${GENERATE_BUILD_LOGS} != "xyes" ]; then
+  buildlog="/dev/null"
+  checklog="/dev/null"
+  statuslog="/dev/null"
+fi
+rosinstall="- git: {local-name: catkin, uri: 'https://github.com/ros-gbp/catkin-release.git',
+    version: release/kinetic/catkin/0.7.14-0}
+"
+build() {
+  set -o pipefail
+  mkdir -p $builddir
+  echo "building" > $statuslog
+  cd "$builddir"
+  rm -rf src || true
+  mkdir -p src
+  echo "$rosinstall" > pkg.rosinstall
+  wstool init --shallow src pkg.rosinstall
+  mkdir src/$_pkgname/build
+  cd src/$_pkgname/build
+  cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/ros/kinetic -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib 2>&1 | tee $buildlog
+  make 2>&1 | tee -a $buildlog
+}
+check() {
+  if [ -f $startdir/NOCHECK ]; then
+    echo "Check skipped" | tee $checklog
+    return 0
+  fi
+  set -o pipefail
+  echo "checking" >> $statuslog
+  cd "$builddir"
+  cd src/$_pkgname/build
+  if [ `make -q test > /dev/null 2> /dev/null; echo $?` -eq 1 ]; then
+    make test 2>&1 | tee $checklog
+  fi
+}
+package() {
+  echo "packaging" >> $statuslog
+  mkdir -p "$pkgdir"
+  cd "$builddir"
+  export DESTDIR="$pkgdir"
+  cd src/$_pkgname/build
+  make install
+  echo "finished" >> $statuslog
+}
diff --git a/ros/kinetic/catkin/NOCHECK b/ros/kinetic/catkin/NOCHECK
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index 000000000..e69de29bb