diff --git a/xorg/xkeyboard-config/build b/xorg/xkeyboard-config/build
index d9f461aa..91552c62 100755
--- a/xorg/xkeyboard-config/build
+++ b/xorg/xkeyboard-config/build
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
+# Swap to shell script instead of perl script
+# for conversion of rules files. See files/xml2lst.
+sed -i 's/perl //;s/xml2lst\.pl/xml2lst/' rules/Makefile.in
+
 ./configure \
     --prefix=/usr \
     --with-xkb-rules-symlink=xfree86,xorg \
diff --git a/xorg/xkeyboard-config/checksums b/xorg/xkeyboard-config/checksums
index 6174efaa..bdfecd76 100644
--- a/xorg/xkeyboard-config/checksums
+++ b/xorg/xkeyboard-config/checksums
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 1d4175278bf06000683656763a8b1d3282c61a314b6db41260c8efe92d621802  xkeyboard-config-2.29.tar.bz2
+d26a67612fe3a204b15104ebd5c9b8a060ac20bd700d60af8d065580aaf05d9f  xml2lst
diff --git a/xorg/xkeyboard-config/files/xml2lst b/xorg/xkeyboard-config/files/xml2lst
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..9c734383
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xorg/xkeyboard-config/files/xml2lst
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# converts the <rules>.xml file to the old format <rules>.lst file
+#
+# Usage:
+#
+# sh xml2lst.sh < filename.xml > filename.lst
+#
+# author Ivan Pascal
+
+configitem=0 
+modellist=0 
+layout=0 
+configitem=0 
+variant=0 
+comment=0
+
+printf '! model\n'
+
+while read -r line || [ "$line" ]; do
+    case $line in
+        *'<configItem>'*)   configitem=1 ;;
+        *'</configItem>'*)  configitem=0 ;;
+        *'<modelList>'*)    modellist=1  ;;
+        *'</modelList>'*)   break ;;
+
+        *'<name>'*)         
+            name=${line##*<name>}
+            name=${name%%</name>*}
+        ;;
+
+        *'<description>'*)
+            desc=${line##*<description>}
+            desc=${desc%%</description>*}
+
+            [ "$configitem" -eq 0 ] || [ "$modellist" -eq 0 ] ||
+                printf '  %-15s %s\n' "$name" "$desc"
+        ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+printf '\n! layout\n'
+
+while read -r line || [ "$line" ]; do
+    case $line in
+        *'<layoutList>'*|*'<layout>'*)     layout=1 ;;
+        *'</layout>'*)                     layout=0 ;;
+        *'<configItem>'*)                  configitem=1 ;;
+        *'</configItem>'*)                 configitem=0 ;;
+        *'<variantList>'*|*'<variant>'*)   variant=1 ;;
+        *'</variantList>'*|*'</variant>'*) variant=0 ;;
+        *'</layoutList>'*)                 break ;;
+    esac
+
+    if [ "$layout" -ne 0 ]; then
+        if [ "${variant}" -ne 0 ]; then
+            case $line in
+                *'<name>'*) 
+                    name=${line##*<name>} 
+                    name=${name%%</name>*}
+                ;;
+
+                *'<description>'*)
+                    line="$lname: ${line##*<description>}"
+                    line=${line%%</description>*}
+                    names="$names  $(printf '%-15s %s' "$name" "$line")
+"
+                ;;
+            esac
+
+        elif [ "$configitem" -ne 0 ]; then
+            case $line in
+                *'<name>'*) 
+                    lname=${line##*<name>}
+                    lname=${lname%%</name>*}
+                ;;
+
+                *'<description>'*)
+                    line=${line##*<description>}
+                    line=${line%%</description>*}
+                    printf '  %-15s %s\n' "$lname" "$line"
+                ;;
+            esac
+        fi
+    fi
+done
+
+printf '\n! variant\n%s\n! option\n' "$names"
+
+while read -r line || [ "$line" ]; do
+    case $line in
+        *'-->'*)           comment=0;;
+        *'<!--'*)          comment=1;;
+        *'</optionList>'*) break;;
+
+        *'<name>'*)
+            name=${line##*<name>} 
+            name=${name%%</name>*}
+        ;;
+
+        *'<description>'*)
+            line=${line##*<description>}
+            line=${line%%</description>*}
+
+            [ "$comment" -ne 0 ] ||
+                printf '  %-20s %s\n' "$name" "$line"
+        ;;
+    esac
+done
diff --git a/xorg/xkeyboard-config/sources b/xorg/xkeyboard-config/sources
index 091aecdd..c865f76a 100644
--- a/xorg/xkeyboard-config/sources
+++ b/xorg/xkeyboard-config/sources
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 https://x.org/releases/individual/data/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config-2.29.tar.bz2
+files/xml2lst rules