diff --git a/misc/py-smdebug-rulesconfig/Makefile b/misc/py-smdebug-rulesconfig/Makefile
index 7453602b9b5b..d1c5d17dece6 100644
--- a/misc/py-smdebug-rulesconfig/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-smdebug-rulesconfig/Makefile
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
 PORTNAME=	smdebug-rulesconfig
 DISTVERSION=	1.0.1
+PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	misc python # machine-learning
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:S/-/_/}-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	SageMaker: SMDebug RulesConfig (library for Amazon Sagemaker)
 WWW=		https://github.com/awslabs/sagemaker-debugger-rulesconfig
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-smdebug-rulesconfig/files/patch-setup.py b/misc/py-smdebug-rulesconfig/files/patch-setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c2b27cba0799
--- /dev/null
+++ b/misc/py-smdebug-rulesconfig/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- setup.py.orig	2020-12-08 17:43:31 UTC
++++ setup.py
+@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def build_rule_config_package(version):
+         description="SMDebug RulesConfig",
+         long_description=long_description,
+         url="https://github.com/awslabs/sagemaker-debugger-rulesconfig",
+-        packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
++        packages=setuptools.find_packages(exclude = ["tests", "tests.*"]),
+         package_data={"smdebug_rulesconfig": ["debugger_rules/rule_config_jsons/*.json"]},
+         classifiers=[
+             "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",