diff --git a/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/build b/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/build
index 3c48ef62b8..3dc60cc313 100755
--- a/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/build
+++ b/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/build
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-$SCRIPTS/build Python
 $SCRIPTS/unpack libxml2
 
 setup_toolchain host
diff --git a/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/meta b/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c00a09442
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="libxml2-host"
+PKG_VERSION=""
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
+PKG_SITE="http://xmlsoft.org"
+PKG_URL=""
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="textproc"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="libxml: XML parser library for Gnome"
+PKG_LONGDESC="The libxml package contains an XML library, which allows you to manipulate XML files. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a data format for structured document interchange via the Web."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
diff --git a/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/url b/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/url
deleted file mode 100644
index f4ddb0d914..0000000000
--- a/packages/textproc/libxml2-host/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.7.tar.gz
\ No newline at end of file