diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-mysql/default.nix b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-mysql/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c2bf899a9cd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/DBD-mysql/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{fetchurl, buildPerlPackage, DBI, mysql}:
+
+buildPerlPackage {
+  name = "DBD-mysql-4.013";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/C/CA/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.013.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "074jm3fd9bi9am4i8alwim5i7a4gl07hzjy7a7hfdj9awbd0w9x9";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [mysql] ;
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [DBI];
+
+#  makeMakerFlags = "MYSQL_HOME=${mysql}";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/maatkit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/maatkit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d560a5d8e410
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/maatkit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{buildPerlPackage, stdenv, fetchurl, DBDmysql}:
+
+buildPerlPackage rec {
+  name = "maatkit-4790";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://maatkit.googlecode.com/files/${name}.tar.gz" ;
+    sha256 = "0lf6dgh1w96m234hrkhagyyvv1m1ldchpzsg6iswvkj6sbvv7d7h";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ DBDmysql ] ;
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    find . | while read fn; do
+        if test -f "$fn"; then
+            first=$(dd if="$fn" count=2 bs=1 2> /dev/null)
+            if test "$first" = "#!"; then
+                sed < "$fn" > "$fn".tmp \
+                    -e "s|^#\!\(.*[/\ ]perl.*\)$|#\!$perl/bin/perl $perlFlags|"
+                if test -x "$fn"; then chmod +x "$fn".tmp; fi
+                mv "$fn".tmp "$fn"
+            fi
+        fi
+    done
+  '' ;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Maatkit makes MySQL easier and safer to manage. It provides simple, predictable ways to do things you cannot otherwise do.";
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+    homepage = http://www.maatkit.org/;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 5fde1b1a2ac0..b0d0b9f68a51 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -830,6 +830,11 @@ rec {
     inherit (pkgs) sqlite;
   };
 
+  DBDmysql = import ../development/perl-modules/DBD-mysql {
+    inherit fetchurl buildPerlPackage DBI;
+    inherit (pkgs) mysql;
+  };
+
   DBDPg = import ../development/perl-modules/DBD-Pg {
     inherit fetchurl buildPerlPackage DBI;
     inherit (pkgs) postgresql;
@@ -1501,6 +1506,11 @@ rec {
     propagatedBuildInputs = [URI HTMLParser HTMLTagset];
   };
 
+  maatkit = import ../development/perl-modules/maatkit {
+    inherit fetchurl buildPerlPackage stdenv DBDmysql;
+  };
+
+
   MailIMAPClient = buildPerlPackage {
     name = "Mail-IMAPClient-2.2.9";
     src = fetchurl {