diff --git a/packages/textproc/expat/build b/packages/textproc/expat/build
index 3d260f0444..a58bbb0a50 100755
--- a/packages/textproc/expat/build
+++ b/packages/textproc/expat/build
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 mkdir -p .build-target && cd .build-target
 
diff --git a/packages/textproc/expat/install b/packages/textproc/expat/install
index 11602b5522..baab1c9a7f 100755
--- a/packages/textproc/expat/install
+++ b/packages/textproc/expat/install
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 . config/options $1
 
 mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/.libs/libexpat.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
+  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/.libs/libexpat.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/textproc/expat/meta b/packages/textproc/expat/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ff604b8d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/textproc/expat/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="expat"
+PKG_VERSION="2.0.1"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
+PKG_SITE="http://expat.sourceforge.net/"
+PKG_URL="http://sources.openelec.tv/svn/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="textproc"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="expat: XML parser library"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags). An introductory article on using Expat is available on xml.com."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
diff --git a/packages/textproc/expat/url b/packages/textproc/expat/url
deleted file mode 100644
index a3cfcd6cd4..0000000000
--- a/packages/textproc/expat/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-http://sources.openelec.tv/svn/expat-2.0.1.tar.bz2