diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/files/0001-perl-disable-auto-reqs.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/files/0001-perl-disable-auto-reqs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a6c58699d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/files/0001-perl-disable-auto-reqs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+perl: disable auto requires
+
+When generating automatic requirements, it's possible for perl scripts to
+declare 'optional' dependencies.  These seem to often be incorrect and will
+cause installation failures in OE.  Instead of fixing the perl scripts, it
+was decided it is better to simply disable the automatic dependency
+generation.  This matches the behavior from the previous RPM5 implementation.
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [OE specific configuration]
+
+Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
+
+Index: git/fileattrs/perl.attr
+===================================================================
+--- git.orig/fileattrs/perl.attr
++++ git/fileattrs/perl.attr
+@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
+-%__perl_requires	%{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
++#__perl_requires	%{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
+ %__perl_magic		^.*[Pp]erl .*$
+ %__perl_flags		exeonly
+Index: git/fileattrs/perllib.attr
+===================================================================
+--- git.orig/fileattrs/perllib.attr
++++ git/fileattrs/perllib.attr
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ %__perllib_provides	%{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.prov
+-%__perllib_requires	%{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
++#__perllib_requires	%{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
+ %__perllib_magic	^Perl[[:digit:]] module source.*
+ %__perllib_path		\\.pm$
+ %__perllib_flags	magic_and_path
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_git.bb
index 971aac7867..b0f57809cc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_git.bb
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm \
            file://0011-Do-not-require-that-ELF-binaries-are-executable-to-b.patch \
            file://0012-Use-conditional-to-access-_docdir-in-macros.in.patch \
            file://0013-Add-a-new-option-alldeps-to-rpmdeps.patch \
+           file://0001-perl-disable-auto-reqs.patch \
            "
 
 PV = "4.13.90+git${SRCPV}"