diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/dummy-sdk-package.inc b/meta/recipes-core/meta/dummy-sdk-package.inc
index 99863b86f1..b1571a2cc5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/dummy-sdk-package.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/dummy-sdk-package.inc
@@ -18,14 +18,17 @@ ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
 PR[vardeps] += "DUMMYPROVIDES"
 PR[vardeps] += "DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES"
 
+DUMMYMAXVER ??= "999.9-r9"
 DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES ??= ""
 DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_FILTERED = "${@' '.join([pkg for pkg in d.getVar('DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES').split() if d.getVar('IMAGE_INSTALL') is None or pkg not in d.getVar('IMAGE_INSTALL').split()])}"
 DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_MULTILIB = "${@' '.join([multilib_pkg_extend(d, pkg) for pkg in d.getVar('DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_FILTERED').split()])}"
+DUMMYPROVIDES_MAXVER = "${@' '.join(['{} (= {})'.format(pkg, d.getVar('DUMMYMAXVER')) for pkg in d.getVar('DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_MULTILIB').split()]) + d.getVar('DUMMYPROVIDES')}"
+
 DUMMYPROVIDES += "${DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_MULTILIB}"
 
 python populate_packages:prepend() {
     p = d.getVar("PN")
-    d.appendVar("RPROVIDES:%s" % p, "${DUMMYPROVIDES}")
+    d.appendVar("RPROVIDES:%s" % p, "${DUMMYPROVIDES_MAXVER}")
     d.appendVar("RCONFLICTS:%s" % p, "${DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_MULTILIB}")
     d.appendVar("RREPLACES:%s" % p, "${DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_MULTILIB}")
 }