diff --git a/packages/python/devel/setuptools/build b/packages/python/devel/setuptools/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..cf268d7e55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/devel/setuptools/build
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+. config/options.python
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+
+$PYTHON setup.py install --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN
+$PYTHON setup.py install --prefix=$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr
diff --git a/packages/python/devel/setuptools/install b/packages/python/devel/setuptools/install
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..63c6608658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/devel/setuptools/install
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+. config/options.python
+
+PKG_SRC_DIR=`ls -d $PKG_BUILD`
+
+$TOOLCHAIN/bin/easy_install --exclude-scripts --zip-ok --prefix=$INSTALL/usr $PKG_SRC_DIR
diff --git a/packages/python/devel/setuptools/meta b/packages/python/devel/setuptools/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b7d1f5e090
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/devel/setuptools/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="setuptools"
+PKG_VERSION="0.6c11"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
+PKG_SITE="http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools"
+PKG_URL="http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS="Python"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="python/devel"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="setuptools: A collection of enhancements to the Python distutils"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Packages built and distributed using setuptools look to the user like ordinary Python packages based on the distutils. Your users don't need to install or even know about setuptools in order to use them, and you don't have to include the entire setuptools package in your distributions. By including just a single bootstrap module (a 7K .py file), your package will automatically download and install setuptools if the user is building your package from source and doesn't have a suitable version already installed."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"