diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/build b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/build
index 5d66e22a9a..d3ed796660 100755
--- a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/build
+++ b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/build
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-$SCRIPTS/build alsa-lib
-
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 ./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
             --build=$HOST_NAME \
diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/install b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/install
index a3cae38a11..3a636ed2be 100755
--- a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/install
+++ b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/install
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/install alsa-lib
-
 mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/bin
   cp $PKG_BUILD/amixer/amixer $INSTALL/usr/bin
   cp $PKG_DIR/scripts/soundconfig $INSTALL/usr/bin
diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/meta b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4a4bfc6d44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="alsa-utils"
+PKG_VERSION="1.0.23"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.alsa-project.org/"
+PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS="alsa-lib"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain alsa-lib"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="audio"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="alsa-utils: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture utilities"
+PKG_LONGDESC="This package includes the utilities for ALSA, like alsamixer, aplay, arecord, alsactl, iecset and speaker-test."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/url b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/url
deleted file mode 100644
index e4ca726338..0000000000
--- a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.23.tar.bz2