diff --git a/dnf.spec b/dnf.spec
index d756ec012a..e3ac036039 100644
--- a/dnf.spec
+++ b/dnf.spec
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ popd
 %{_bindir}/%{name}-3
 %{_bindir}/%{name}4
 %exclude %{python3_sitelib}/%{name}/automatic
+%{python3_sitelib}/%{name}-*.dist-info
 %{python3_sitelib}/%{name}/
 %dir %{py3pluginpath}
 %dir %{py3pluginpath}/__pycache__
diff --git a/dnf/CMakeLists.txt b/dnf/CMakeLists.txt
index b423bdd92b..ed464a4f0b 100644
--- a/dnf/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/dnf/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ INSTALL (FILES ${dnf_SRCS} DESTINATION ${PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR}/dnf)
 # const.py is generated so the glob alone won't see it:
 INSTALL (FILES const.py DESTINATION ${PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR}/dnf)
 
+# Generate dist-info metadata
+SET(DISTINFO_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/dnf-${DNF_VERSION}.dist-info")
+SET(METADATA_FILE "${DISTINFO_PATH}/METADATA")
+FILE(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${DISTINFO_PATH})
+FILE(WRITE ${METADATA_FILE} "Metadata-Version: 2.1\n")
+FILE(APPEND ${METADATA_FILE} "Name: dnf\n")
+FILE(APPEND ${METADATA_FILE} "Version: ${DNF_VERSION}\n")
+INSTALL(DIRECTORY ${DISTINFO_PATH} DESTINATION ${PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR})
+
 ADD_SUBDIRECTORY (automatic)
 ADD_SUBDIRECTORY (cli)
 ADD_SUBDIRECTORY (conf)