diff --git a/packages/debug/gdb/build b/packages/debug/gdb/build
index a26d4edf63..5fdfd8841d 100755
--- a/packages/debug/gdb/build
+++ b/packages/debug/gdb/build
@@ -2,19 +2,13 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-$SCRIPTS/build ncurses
-$SCRIPTS/build expat
-
 export bash_cv_have_mbstate_t=set
 
 export CC_FOR_BUILD="$HOST_CC"
 export CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD="$HOST_CFLAGS"
 
 cd $PKG_BUILD
-
-mkdir -p objdir
-cd objdir
+mkdir -p objdir && cd objdir
 
 ../configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
              --build=$HOST_NAME \
diff --git a/packages/debug/gdb/install b/packages/debug/gdb/install
index 1222bd6f49..cb8a30b488 100755
--- a/packages/debug/gdb/install
+++ b/packages/debug/gdb/install
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/install ncurses
-$SCRIPTS/install expat
-
 mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/bin
   cp $PKG_BUILD/objdir/$1/$1 $INSTALL/usr/bin
   cp $PKG_BUILD/objdir/$1/gdbserver/gdbserver $INSTALL/usr/bin
diff --git a/packages/debug/gdb/meta b/packages/debug/gdb/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..25b3f9037c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/debug/gdb/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="gdb"
+PKG_VERSION="7.2"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/"
+PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses expat"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain ncurses expat"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="debug"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="gdb: The GNU Debugger"
+PKG_LONGDESC="The purpose of a debugger such as GDB is to allow you to see what is going on ``inside'' another program while it executes--or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
diff --git a/packages/debug/gdb/patches/10_uclibc-conf.diff b/packages/debug/gdb/patches/gdb-7.2-10-uclibc_conf.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from packages/debug/gdb/patches/10_uclibc-conf.diff
rename to packages/debug/gdb/patches/gdb-7.2-10-uclibc_conf.patch
diff --git a/packages/debug/gdb/url b/packages/debug/gdb/url
deleted file mode 100644
index b32860c061..0000000000
--- a/packages/debug/gdb/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.2.tar.bz2
\ No newline at end of file