1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
index 394a6d4480..c85233c7a6 100644
--- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ license_create_manifest() {
         # Get list of installed packages
         list_installed_packages | grep -v "locale" |sort > ${LICENSE_DIRECTORY}/${IMAGE_NAME}/package.manifest
         INSTALLED_PKGS=`cat ${LICENSE_DIRECTORY}/${IMAGE_NAME}/package.manifest`
+        # remove existing license.manifest file
+        if [ -f ${LICENSE_DIRECTORY}/${IMAGE_NAME}/license.manifest ]; then
+                rm ${LICENSE_DIRECTORY}/${IMAGE_NAME}/license.manifest
+        fi
         # list of installed packages is broken for deb
         for pkg in ${INSTALLED_PKGS}; do
                 # not the best way to do this but licenses are not arch dependant iirc