diff --git a/sysutils/py-distro/Makefile b/sysutils/py-distro/Makefile
index 539e770559ac..83b3615d0bc9 100644
--- a/sysutils/py-distro/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/py-distro/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	distro
-PORTVERSION=	1.7.0
+PORTVERSION=	1.8.0
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Linux OS platform information API
 WWW=		https://github.com/python-distro/distro
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 USES=		python:3.6+ shebangfix
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 SHEBANG_FILES=	query_local_distro.py
 
+post-patch:
+	@${CP} ${FILESDIR}/setup.py ${WRKSRC}/
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/sysutils/py-distro/distinfo b/sysutils/py-distro/distinfo
index 7dd01680cf93..a6ec50d94586 100644
--- a/sysutils/py-distro/distinfo
+++ b/sysutils/py-distro/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1646058128
-SHA256 (distro-1.7.0.tar.gz) = 151aeccf60c216402932b52e40ee477a939f8d58898927378a02abbe852c1c39
-SIZE (distro-1.7.0.tar.gz) = 58164
+TIMESTAMP = 1665647905
+SHA256 (distro-1.8.0.tar.gz) = 02e111d1dc6a50abb8eed6bf31c3e48ed8b0830d1ea2a1b78c61765c2513fdd8
+SIZE (distro-1.8.0.tar.gz) = 59428
diff --git a/sysutils/py-distro/files/setup.py b/sysutils/py-distro/files/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..606849326a40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/py-distro/files/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from setuptools import setup
+
+setup()