diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
index 20dd41f492..08da029e6e 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
@@ -349,7 +349,6 @@ class RecipetoolCreateTests(RecipetoolBase):
         checkvars['LICENSE'] = 'GPL-2.0-only'
         checkvars['LIC_FILES_CHKSUM'] = 'file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263'
         checkvars['SRC_URI'] = 'https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/releases/download/${PV}/logrotate-${PV}.tar.xz'
-        checkvars['SRC_URI[md5sum]'] = 'a560c57fac87c45b2fc17406cdf79288'
         checkvars['SRC_URI[sha256sum]'] = '2e6a401cac9024db2288297e3be1a8ab60e7401ba8e91225218aaf4a27e82a07'
         self._test_recipe_contents(recipefile, checkvars, [])
 
@@ -407,7 +406,6 @@ class RecipetoolCreateTests(RecipetoolBase):
         checkvars = {}
         checkvars['LICENSE'] = set(['LGPL-2.1-only', 'MPL-1.1-only'])
         checkvars['SRC_URI'] = 'http://taglib.github.io/releases/taglib-${PV}.tar.gz'
-        checkvars['SRC_URI[md5sum]'] = 'cee7be0ccfc892fa433d6c837df9522a'
         checkvars['SRC_URI[sha256sum]'] = 'b6d1a5a610aae6ff39d93de5efd0fdc787aa9e9dc1e7026fa4c961b26563526b'
         checkvars['DEPENDS'] = set(['boost', 'zlib'])
         inherits = ['cmake']
diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
index 6e15326c55..d2997cc242 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
@@ -706,8 +706,10 @@ def create_recipe(args):
     if not srcuri:
         lines_before.append('# No information for SRC_URI yet (only an external source tree was specified)')
     lines_before.append('SRC_URI = "%s"' % srcuri)
+    shown_checksums = ["%ssum" % s for s in bb.fetch2.SHOWN_CHECKSUM_LIST]
     for key, value in sorted(checksums.items()):
-        lines_before.append('SRC_URI[%s] = "%s"' % (key, value))
+        if key in shown_checksums:
+            lines_before.append('SRC_URI[%s] = "%s"' % (key, value))
     if srcuri and supports_srcrev(srcuri):
         lines_before.append('')
         lines_before.append('# Modify these as desired')