diff --git a/pkgs/data/documentation/man-pages-posix/default.nix b/pkgs/data/documentation/man-pages-posix/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8c126db0792
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/documentation/man-pages-posix/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "man-pages-posix-2003a";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://kernel/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-posix/man-pages-posix-2003-a.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "1sj97lbj27w935f9ia91ih1mwlz4j3qcr3d3nkvcxm6cpfvv2mg3";
+  };
+
+  preBuild =
+    ''
+      makeFlagsArray=(MANDIR=$out/share/man)
+    '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "POSIX man-pages (0p, 1p, 3p)";
+    homepage = http://kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f9a78851171..c1979c25317 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5559,6 +5559,8 @@ let
 
   mph_2b_damase = callPackage ../data/fonts/mph-2b-damase { };
 
+  posix_man_pages = callPackage ../data/documentation/man-pages-posix { };
+
   pthreadmanpages = callPackage ../data/documentation/pthread-man-pages { };
 
   shared_mime_info = callPackage ../data/misc/shared-mime-info { };