2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py
index fcf05dc282..986ae54942 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py
@@ -531,6 +531,9 @@ class PackageManager(object):
         cmd = [bb.utils.which(os.getenv('PATH'), "oe-pkgdata-util"),
                "-p", self.d.getVar('PKGDATA_DIR', True), "glob", installed_pkgs_file,
                globs]
+        exclude = self.d.getVar('PACKAGE_EXCLUDE_COMPLEMENTARY', True)
+        if exclude:
+            cmd.extend(['-x', exclude])
         try:
             bb.note("Installing complementary packages ...")
             complementary_pkgs = subprocess.check_output(cmd, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/pkgdata.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/pkgdata.py
index f689bf344e..34eea468e8 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/pkgdata.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/pkgdata.py
@@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ class OePkgdataUtilTests(oeSelfTest):
         # The following should not error (because when we use this during rootfs construction, sometimes the complementary package won't exist)
         result = runCmd('oe-pkgdata-util glob %s "*-nonexistent"' % pkglistfile)
         self.assertEqual(result.output, '')
+        # Test exclude option
+        result = runCmd('oe-pkgdata-util glob %s "*-dev *-dbg" -x "^libz"' % pkglistfile)
+        resultlist = result.output.split()
+        self.assertNotIn('libz-dev', resultlist)
+        self.assertNotIn('libz-dbg', resultlist)
 
     def test_specify_pkgdatadir(self):
         result = runCmd('oe-pkgdata-util -p %s lookup-pkg glibc' % get_bb_var('PKGDATA_DIR'))