diff --git a/packages/tools/hdparm/build b/packages/tools/hdparm/build
index bf0ba7aaec..cd1a3b85e6 100755
--- a/packages/tools/hdparm/build
+++ b/packages/tools/hdparm/build
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 make binprefix="/usr" \
      sbindir="/sbin" \
diff --git a/packages/tools/hdparm/meta b/packages/tools/hdparm/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..24a3746977
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/tools/hdparm/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="hdparm"
+PKG_VERSION="9.36"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
+PKG_SITE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/"
+PKG_URL="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="tools"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="hdparm: Get/set hard disk parameters"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Shell utility to access/tune ioctl features of the Linux IDE driver and IDE drives."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
diff --git a/packages/tools/hdparm/url b/packages/tools/hdparm/url
deleted file mode 100644
index 99f2b506d7..0000000000
--- a/packages/tools/hdparm/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/hdparm/hdparm/hdparm-9.36.tar.gz
\ No newline at end of file