diff --git a/maven-meeper/src/bin/create-checksums b/maven-meeper/src/bin/create-checksums
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..ff985a2af9
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+++ b/maven-meeper/src/bin/create-checksums
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+for i in `find -regex '.*\.jar\|.*\.pom'`
+do
+  md5sum $i | sed 's/ .*$//' > $i.md5
+  chown --reference $i $i.md5
+done
+