diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
index 539a5221..15eaa01c 100644
--- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
@@ -2030,6 +2030,100 @@ find_libprovides() {
 	printf '%s\n' "${libprovides[@]}"
 }
 
+srcinfo_open_section() {
+	printf '%s = %s\n' "$1" "$2"
+}
+
+srcinfo_close_section() {
+	echo
+}
+
+srcinfo_write_attr() {
+	# $1: attr name
+	# $2: attr values
+
+	local attrname=$1 attrvalues=("${@:2}")
+
+	# normalize whitespace, strip leading and trailing
+	attrvalues=("${attrvalues[@]//+([[:space:]])/ }")
+	attrvalues=("${attrvalues[@]#[[:space:]]}")
+	attrvalues=("${attrvalues[@]%[[:space:]]}")
+
+	printf "\t$attrname = %s\n" "${attrvalues[@]}"
+}
+
+pkgbuild_extract_to_srcinfo() {
+	# $1: pkgname
+	# $2: attr name
+	# $3: multivalued
+
+	local pkgname=$1 attrname=$2 isarray=$3 outvalue=
+
+	if pkgbuild_get_attribute "$pkgname" "$attrname" "$isarray" 'outvalue'; then
+		srcinfo_write_attr "$attrname" "${outvalue[@]}"
+	fi
+}
+
+srcinfo_write_section_details() {
+	local attr package_arch a
+	local multivalued_arch_attrs=(source provides conflicts depends replaces
+	                              optdepends makedepends checkdepends
+	                              {md5,sha{1,224,256,384,512}}sums)
+
+	for attr in "${singlevalued[@]}"; do
+		pkgbuild_extract_to_srcinfo "$1" "$attr" 0
+	done
+
+	for attr in "${multivalued[@]}"; do
+		pkgbuild_extract_to_srcinfo "$1" "$attr" 1
+	done
+
+	pkgbuild_get_attribute "$1" 'arch' 1 'package_arch'
+	for a in "${package_arch[@]}"; do
+		# 'any' is special. there's no support for, e.g. depends_any.
+		[[ $a = any ]] && continue
+
+		for attr in "${multivalued_arch_attrs[@]}"; do
+			pkgbuild_extract_to_srcinfo "$1" "${attr}_$a" 1
+		done
+	done
+}
+
+srcinfo_write_global() {
+	local singlevalued=(pkgdesc pkgver pkgrel epoch url install changelog)
+	local multivalued=(arch groups license checkdepends makedepends
+	                   depends optdepends provides conflicts replaces
+	                   noextract options backup
+	                   source {md5,sha{1,224,256,384,512}}sums)
+
+	srcinfo_open_section 'pkgbase' "${pkgbase:-$pkgname}"
+	srcinfo_write_section_details ''
+	srcinfo_close_section
+}
+
+srcinfo_write_package() {
+	local singlevalued=(pkgdesc url install changelog)
+	local multivalued=(arch groups license checkdepends depends optdepends
+	                   provides conflicts replaces options backup)
+
+	srcinfo_open_section 'pkgname' "$1"
+	srcinfo_write_section_details "$1"
+	srcinfo_close_section
+}
+
+write_srcinfo() {
+	local pkg
+
+	printf "# Generated by makepkg %s\n" "$makepkg_version"
+	printf "# %s\n" "$(LC_ALL=C date -u)"
+
+	srcinfo_write_global
+
+	for pkg in "${pkgname[@]}"; do
+		srcinfo_write_package "$pkg"
+	done
+}
+
 write_pkginfo() {
 	local builddate=$(date -u "+%s")
 	if [[ -n $PACKAGER ]]; then
@@ -2242,6 +2336,9 @@ create_srcpackage() {
 	msg2 "$(gettext "Adding %s...")" "$BUILDSCRIPT"
 	ln -s "${BUILDFILE}" "${srclinks}/${pkgbase}/${BUILDSCRIPT}"
 
+	msg2 "$(gettext "Generating %s file...")" .SRCINFO
+	write_srcinfo > "$srclinks/$pkgbase"/.SRCINFO
+
 	local file all_sources
 
 	get_all_sources 'all_sources'
@@ -2378,7 +2475,7 @@ extract_global_var() {
 	# $2: multivalued
 	# $3: name of output var
 
-	local attr=$1 isarray=$2 outputvar=$3
+	local attr=$1 isarray=$2 outputvar=$3 ref
 
 	if (( isarray )); then
 		array_build ref "$attr"