2 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/packaged-staging.bbclass b/meta/classes/packaged-staging.bbclass
index 48c55bc27c..ed94790b1d 100644
--- a/meta/classes/packaged-staging.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/packaged-staging.bbclass
@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ PSTAGE_PKGPN      = "${@bb.data.expand('staging-${PN}-${MULTIMACH_ARCH}${TARGET_
 PSTAGE_PKGNAME    = "${PSTAGE_PKGPN}_${PSTAGE_PKGVERSION}_${PSTAGE_PKGARCH}.ipk"
 PSTAGE_PKG        = "${DEPLOY_DIR_PSTAGE}/${PSTAGE_PKGPATH}/${PSTAGE_PKGNAME}"
 
-# multimachine.bbclass will override this but add a default in case we're not using it
-MULTIMACH_ARCH ?= "${PACKAGE_ARCH}"
-
 PSTAGE_NATIVEDEPENDS = "\
     shasum-native \
     stagemanager-native \
diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 697832acae..d51f9d9e78 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ PACKAGE_ARCH = "${BASE_PACKAGE_ARCH}"
 MACHINE_ARCH = "${@[bb.data.getVar('HOST_ARCH', d, 1), bb.data.getVar('MACHINE', d, 1)][bool(bb.data.getVar('MACHINE', d, 1))]}"
 PACKAGE_ARCHS = "all any noarch ${TARGET_ARCH} ${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS} ${MACHINE}"
 
+MULTIMACH_ARCH = "${PACKAGE_ARCH}"
 MULTIMACH_TARGET_SYS = "${MULTIMACH_ARCH}${TARGET_VENDOR}-${TARGET_OS}"
 MULTIMACH_HOST_SYS = "${MULTIMACH_ARCH}${HOST_VENDOR}-${HOST_OS}"