diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/packagedata.py b/meta/lib/oe/packagedata.py
index 2d1d6ddeb75e..2bc57b8c343c 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/packagedata.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/packagedata.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def get_package_mapping(pkg, basepkg, d, depversions=None):
     key = "PKG:%s" % pkg
 
     if key in data:
-        if bb.data.inherits_class('allarch', d) and bb.data.inherits_class('packagegroup', d) and pkg != data[key]:
+        if d.getVar("PACKAGE_ARCH") == "all" and bb.data.inherits_class('packagegroup', d) and pkg != data[key]:
             bb.error("An allarch packagegroup shouldn't depend on packages which are dynamically renamed (%s to %s)" % (pkg, data[key]))
         # Have to avoid undoing the write_extra_pkgs(global_variants...)
         if bb.data.inherits_class('allarch', d) and not d.getVar('MULTILIB_VARIANTS') \