diff --git a/develop/flawfinder/flawfinder.conf b/develop/flawfinder/flawfinder.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..209096b10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/develop/flawfinder/flawfinder.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../flawfinder/flawfinder.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2011 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+# GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+# do not run the shipped setup.py
+runpysetup=0
+
+var_append makeinstopt ' ' "INSTALL_DIR=$root/$prefix"
diff --git a/develop/flawfinder/flawfinder.desc b/develop/flawfinder/flawfinder.desc
index 734b6aa0e..abe22c57c 100644
--- a/develop/flawfinder/flawfinder.desc
+++ b/develop/flawfinder/flawfinder.desc
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 [COPY]
 [COPY] Filename: package/.../flawfinder/flawfinder.desc
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2011 The OpenSDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 [COPY]
 [COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.26
+[V] 1.27
 [P] X -----5---9 800.000
 
-[D] 344907092 flawfinder-1.26.tar.gz http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder/
+[D] 596778335 flawfinder-1.27.tar.gz http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder/