diff --git a/conf/distro/include/tcmode-external-sourcery.inc b/conf/distro/include/tcmode-external-sourcery.inc
index 4738e36..0ee6996 100644
--- a/conf/distro/include/tcmode-external-sourcery.inc
+++ b/conf/distro/include/tcmode-external-sourcery.inc
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libc ?= "glibc-external"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libintl ?= "glibc-external"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libiconv ?= "glibc-external"
 
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_gdbserver ??= "gdb"
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_gdbserver ??= "gdbserver-external"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_oprofile ??= "oprofile"
 
 # These are defined in default-providers.inc, which is parsed before the
diff --git a/recipes-external/gdb/gdbserver-external.bb b/recipes-external/gdb/gdbserver-external.bb
index a0aace5..1f7702a 100644
--- a/recipes-external/gdb/gdbserver-external.bb
+++ b/recipes-external/gdb/gdbserver-external.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-SUMMARY = "gdb - GNU debugger"
+SUMMARY = "gdbserver is a program that allows you to run GDB on a different machine than the one which is running the program being debugged"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/"
 SECTION = "devel"
 PV := "${@oe.external.run(d, 'gdb', '-v').splitlines()[0].split()[-1]}"
@@ -18,15 +18,7 @@ def get_gdb_license(d):
 LICENSE := "${@get_gdb_license(d)}"
 LICENSE[vardepvalue] = "${LICENSE}"
 
-FILES_${PN} = "\
-    ${bindir}/gdbserver \
-    ${datadir}/gdb/guile \
-    ${datadir}/gdb/python/gdb \
-    ${datadir}/gdb/syscalls \
-    ${datadir}/gdb/system-gdbinit \
-    ${libdir}/libinproctrace.so \
-"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "dev-so"
+FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/gdbserver"
 FILES_${PN}-doc = "${mandir}/man1/gdbserver.1"
 
 # Ensure that our rdeps are able to be set by shlibs processing