diff --git a/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/build b/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/build
index bb27c90213..c3e40bb113 100755
--- a/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/build
+++ b/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/build
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
 $SCRIPTS/unpack mysql
 
 setup_toolchain host
diff --git a/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/meta b/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5d71bc3650
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/databases/mysql-hosttools/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="mysql-hosttools"
+PKG_VERSION=""
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.mysql.com"
+PKG_URL=""
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="database"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="mysql: A database server"
+PKG_LONGDESC="MySQL is a SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. MySQL is a client server implementation that consists of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs/libraries."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"