diff --git a/packages/devel/libevent/build b/packages/devel/libevent/build
index 6a37aac5fe..815fdf1043 100755
--- a/packages/devel/libevent/build
+++ b/packages/devel/libevent/build
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 ./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
             --build=$HOST_NAME \
diff --git a/packages/devel/libevent/meta b/packages/devel/libevent/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3db33fa391
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libevent/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="libevent"
+PKG_VERSION="1.4.14b-stable"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/"
+PKG_URL="http://monkey.org/~provos/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="devel"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="libevent: A library for asynchronous event notification"
+PKG_LONGDESC="The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. It is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event-driven network servers."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
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diff --git a/packages/devel/libevent/url b/packages/devel/libevent/url
deleted file mode 100644
index 9affba6d71..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/libevent/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.14b-stable.tar.gz
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