1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/packagegroup.bbclass b/meta/classes/packagegroup.bbclass
index 1541c8fbff..557b1b6382 100644
--- a/meta/classes/packagegroup.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/packagegroup.bbclass
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ python () {
                     for suffix in types]
         d.setVar('PACKAGES', ' '.join(packages))
     for pkg in packages:
-        d.setVar('ALLOW_EMPTY_%s' % pkg, '1')
+        d.setVar('ALLOW_EMPTY:%s' % pkg, '1')
 }
 
 # We don't want to look at shared library dependencies for the