diff --git a/common/hooks/pre-pkg/07-shlib-symbols.sh b/common/hooks/pre-pkg/07-shlib-symbols.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..dcedd8c5bf60e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/hooks/pre-pkg/07-shlib-symbols.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# This hook executes the following tasks:
+#	- generates shlib-provides file for xbps-create(8)
+
+get_symbols() {
+	local _destdir="$1" _fname="$2" _soname="$3"
+	local _addr _type _sym
+	local _path="${_fname#$_destdir}"
+	_path=${_path%/*}
+	$NM -Dg --defined-only $_fname | while read _addr _type _sym; do
+		echo "${_path}/$_soname $_sym ${pkgname}-${version}"
+		echo "${_path}/$_soname $_sym ${pkgname}-${version}" >&2
+	done
+}
+
+get_old_symbols() {
+	local _destdir="$1" _fname="$2"
+	$XBPS_QUERY_CMD -R --cat "/usr/lib/symbols/${pkgname}" "$pkgname" || :
+}
+
+merge_symbols() {
+	awk '
+	{x[$1][$2]=$3}
+	END{
+		for (k in x) for (k1 in x[k]) printf "%s %s %s\n",k,k1,x[k][k1]
+	}'
+}
+
+collect_symbols() {
+	local _destdir="$1"
+	local _soname
+
+	if [ ! -d ${_destdir} ]; then
+		return 0
+	fi
+	mkdir -p "${_destdir}/usr/lib/symbols"
+
+	find ${_destdir} -type f -name "*.so*" | while read f; do
+		_fname="${f##*/}"
+		case "$(file -bi "$f")" in
+		application/x-sharedlib*|application/x-pie-executable*)
+			_soname=$(${OBJDUMP} -p "$f"|grep SONAME|awk '{print $2}')
+			get_symbols "$_destdir" "$f" "$_soname"
+			get_old_symbols "$_destdir" "$f" "$_soname"
+			;;
+		esac
+	done | merge_symbols >"${_destdir}/usr/lib/symbols/${pkgname}"
+}
+
+hook() {
+	local _destdir32=${XBPS_DESTDIR}/${pkgname}-32bit-${version}
+
+	if [ -z "$shlib_provides" -a "${archs// /}" = "noarch" -o -n "$noshlibprovides" ]; then
+		return 0
+	fi
+
+	# native pkg
+	collect_symbols ${PKGDESTDIR}
+	# 32bit pkg
+	collect_symbols ${_destdir32}
+}
diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 8b1c87a98aa4c3..71dad5747000c3 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3709,3 +3709,4 @@ libnvpair.so.1 zfs-0.8.2_1
 libjsonnet.so.0 jsonnet-0.14.0_2
 libjsonnet++.so.0 jsonnet-0.14.0_2
 libigdgmm.so.12 intel-gmmlib-19.3.4_1
+libtestlib.so.0 testlib-0.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/testbin/template b/srcpkgs/testbin/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..5a0af38d801045
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/testbin/template
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Template file for 'testbin'
+pkgname=testbin
+version=0.2
+revision=1
+hostmakedepends=""
+makedepends="testlib-devel"
+depends=""
+short_desc="symbol package version test"
+maintainer="Duncaen <duncaen@voidlinux.org>"
+license="BSD-2-clause"
+homepage="https://voidlinux.org"
+
+do_build() {
+	echo "#include <stdio.h>" >main.c
+	echo "#include <testlib.h>" >>main.c
+	case "${version}" in
+	0.1)
+		echo 'int main(void) { printf("%d\n", foo()); return 0; }' >>main.c
+		;;
+	0.2)
+		echo 'int main(void) { printf("%d %d\n", foo(), bar()); return 0; }' >>main.c
+		;;
+	esac
+	$CC $CFLAGS -c -o main.o main.c
+	$CC $LDFLAGS -o testbin main.c -ltestlib
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	vbin testbin
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/testlib-devel b/srcpkgs/testlib-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000000..ffcc5e380808e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/testlib-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+testlib
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/testlib/template b/srcpkgs/testlib/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..478e7fbe3b0738
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/testlib/template
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Template file for 'testlib'
+pkgname=testlib
+version=0.2
+revision=1
+hostmakedepends=""
+makedepends=""
+depends=""
+short_desc="symbol package version test"
+maintainer="Duncaen <duncaen@voidlinux.org>"
+license="BSD-2-clause"
+homepage="https://voidlinux.org"
+
+do_build() {
+	case "$version" in
+	0.1)
+		echo "int foo(void);" >testlib.h
+		echo "int foo(void) { return 1; }" >testlib.c
+		$CC $CFLAGS -c -o testlib.o testlib.c
+		$CC -shared $LDFLAGS -Wl,-soname,libtestlib.so.0 testlib.o -o libtestlib.so.${version}
+		ln -sf libtestlib.so.${version} libtestlib.so.0
+		ln -sf libtestlib.so.${version} libtestlib.so
+		;;
+	0.2)
+		echo "int foo(void);" >testlib.h
+		echo "int bar(void);" >>testlib.h
+		echo "int foo(void) { return 1; }" >testlib.c
+		echo "int bar(void) { return 1; }" >>testlib.c
+		$CC $CFLAGS -c -o testlib.o testlib.c
+		$CC -shared $LDFLAGS -Wl,-soname,libtestlib.so.0 testlib.o -o libtestlib.so.${version}
+		ln -sf libtestlib.so.${version} libtestlib.so.0
+		ln -sf libtestlib.so.${version} libtestlib.so
+		;;
+	esac
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	vmkdir usr/lib
+	vinstall libtestlib.so.${version} 755 usr/lib
+	vcopy libtestlib.so* usr/lib
+	vinstall testlib.h 644 usr/include
+}
+
+testlib-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+	}
+}
diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000000..16b78a310ea8cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+mktestlib() {
+	local version="$1"
+	sed -i "s/version=.*/version=$version/" srcpkgs/testlib/template
+	./xbps-src -f pkg testlib >/dev/null || exit 1
+	echo "symbols for $version:"
+	xbps-query \
+		--repository=hostdir/binpkgs/ \
+		--repository=hostdir/binpkgs/symbol-map \
+		--cat /usr/lib/symbols/testlib testlib || exit 1
+}
+
+mktestbin() {
+	local version="$1"
+	sed -i "s/version=.*/version=$version/" srcpkgs/testbin/template
+	./xbps-src -f pkg testbin >/dev/null || exit 1
+	echo "deps for testbin-$version:"
+	xbps-query \
+		--repository=hostdir/binpkgs/ \
+		--repository=hostdir/binpkgs/symbol-map \
+		-x testbin || exit 1
+}
+
+rm -rf hostdir/binpkgs/symbol-map
+mktestlib "0.1"
+mktestbin "0.1"
+mktestlib "0.2"
+mktestbin "0.2"