diff --git a/packages/devel/file-host/build b/packages/devel/file-host/build
deleted file mode 100755
index a4de82eaf0..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/file-host/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-$SCRIPTS/unpack file
-
-setup_toolchain host
-
-cd $BUILD/file-*
-
-mkdir -p .build-host && cd .build-host
-../configure --host=$HOST_NAME \
-             --build=$HOST_NAME \
-             --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN \
-             --enable-shared \
-             --disable-static \
-             --enable-fsect-man5 \
-
-make -C src
-make -C src install
diff --git a/packages/devel/file-host/meta b/packages/devel/file-host/meta
deleted file mode 100644
index b83e6f33c9..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/file-host/meta
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="file"
-PKG_VERSION=""
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
-PKG_SITE="http://www.darwinsys.com/file/"
-PKG_URL=""
-PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
-PKG_SECTION="devel"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="file: File type identification utility"
-PKG_LONGDESC="These are the sources to Darwin's file(1) utility and master magic(4) file, now maintained by Christos Zoulas. The file(1) utility is used to determine the types of various files."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-
-PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
diff --git a/packages/devel/file/build b/packages/devel/file/build
deleted file mode 100755
index 0eb2d37bd1..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/file/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-cd $PKG_BUILD
-mkdir -p .build-target
-cd .build-target
-../configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
-             --build=$HOST_NAME \
-             --prefix=/usr \
-             --sysconfdir=/etc \
-             --localstatedir=/var \
-             --enable-shared \
-             --disable-static \
-             --enable-fsect-man5 \
-
-make
diff --git a/packages/devel/file/install b/packages/devel/file/install
deleted file mode 100755
index 1d5a014101..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/file/install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/bin
-  cp $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/src/.libs/file $INSTALL/usr/bin
-
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/src/.libs/libmagic.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
-
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/share/misc
-  cp $PKG_BUILD/.build-target/magic/magic.mgc $INSTALL/usr/share/misc
diff --git a/packages/devel/file/meta b/packages/devel/file/package.mk
similarity index 91%
rename from packages/devel/file/meta
rename to packages/devel/file/package.mk
index 4f6c2b9530..6c539e74f5 100644
--- a/packages/devel/file/meta
+++ b/packages/devel/file/package.mk
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.darwinsys.com/file/"
 PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS="zlib"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain zlib file-host"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib file:host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="file: File type identification utility"
@@ -34,3 +34,6 @@ PKG_LONGDESC="These are the sources to Darwin's file(1) utility and master magic
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 
 PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="--enable-fsect-man5"
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--enable-fsect-man5"