diff --git a/meta/classes-global/staging.bbclass b/meta/classes-global/staging.bbclass
index 1008867a6c..259603dcbf 100644
--- a/meta/classes-global/staging.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-global/staging.bbclass
@@ -248,6 +248,8 @@ def staging_populate_sysroot_dir(targetsysroot, nativesysroot, native, d):
     for p in sorted(postinsts):
         bb.note("Running postinst {}, output:\n{}".format(p, subprocess.check_output(p, shell=True, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)))
 
+staging_populate_sysroot_dir[vardepsexclude] += "PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS"
+
 #
 # Manifests here are complicated. The main sysroot area has the unpacked sstate
 # which us unrelocated and tracked by the main sstate manifests. Each recipe