diff --git a/packages/databases/mysql/build b/packages/databases/mysql/build
index 9339ebba0b..261247bab9 100755
--- a/packages/databases/mysql/build
+++ b/packages/databases/mysql/build
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
-$SCRIPTS/build zlib
-$SCRIPTS/build ncurses
-$SCRIPTS/build mysql-hosttools
-
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 
 ac_cv_c_stack_direction=-1 \
diff --git a/packages/databases/mysql/install b/packages/databases/mysql/install
index 1bb862621b..fdf8d6f55c 100755
--- a/packages/databases/mysql/install
+++ b/packages/databases/mysql/install
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 . config/options $1
-$SCRIPTS/install ncurses
-$SCRIPTS/install zlib
 
 mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
   cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/databases/mysql/meta b/packages/databases/mysql/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cd62e3ec5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/databases/mysql/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="mysql"
+PKG_VERSION="5.1.49"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.mysql.com"
+PKG_URL="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/$PKG_NAME/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS="zlib ncurses"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain zlib ncurses mysql-hosttools"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="database"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="mysql: A database server"
+PKG_LONGDESC="MySQL is a SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. MySQL is a client server implementation that consists of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs/libraries."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
diff --git a/packages/databases/mysql/url b/packages/databases/mysql/url
deleted file mode 100644
index 1950282c54..0000000000
--- a/packages/databases/mysql/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.48.tar.gz