diff --git a/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/build b/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/build
index b8fb58b5ee..b7f21583ec 100755
--- a/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/build
+++ b/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/build
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
 $SCRIPTS/unpack lzma
 
 LZMA_DIR=`ls -d $ROOT/$BUILD/lzma*`
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/meta b/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..22b529c850
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="squashfs"
+PKG_VERSION="4.1"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/"
+PKG_URL="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/squashfs/squashfs/${PKG_NAME}${PKG_VERSION}/${PKG_NAME}${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="toolchain/sysutils"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="squashfs-tools: A compressed read-only filesystem for Linux"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Squashfs is intended to be a general read-only filesystem, for archival use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in constrained block device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed. The filesystem is currently stable and has been tested on PowerPC, i386, SPARC and ARM architectures."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/patches/squashfs-4.1-defaults-0.1.diff b/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/patches/squashfs-4.1-defaults-0.1.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/patches/squashfs-4.1-defaults-0.1.diff
rename to packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/patches/squashfs-4.1-defaults-0.1.patch
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/url b/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/url
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a1e085f9c..0000000000
--- a/packages/toolchain/sysutils/squashfs/url
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/squashfs/squashfs/squashfs4.1/squashfs4.1.tar.gz
\ No newline at end of file