diff --git a/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass b/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
index 6878e1a936..03f083e5af 100644
--- a/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ SSTATE_EXTRAPATH   = ""
 SSTATE_EXTRAPATHWILDCARD = ""
 SSTATE_PATHSPEC   = "${SSTATE_DIR}/${SSTATE_EXTRAPATHWILDCARD}*/${SSTATE_PKGSPEC}"
 
-SSTATE_DUPWHITELIST = "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/ ${DEPLOY_DIR}/licenses/ ${DEPLOY_DIR_IPK}/all/ ${DEPLOY_DIR_RPM}/all ${DEPLOY_DIR_DEB}/all/"
+# In theory we should be using:
+# SSTATE_DUPWHITELIST = "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/ ${DEPLOY_DIR}/licenses/ ${DEPLOY_DIR_IPK}/all/ ${DEPLOY_DIR_RPM}/all ${DEPLOY_DIR_DEB}/all/ ${TMPDIR}/pkgdata/all${TARGET_VENDOR}-${TARGET_OS}"
+# However until do_package is not machine specific, we'll have to make do with this:
+SSTATE_DUPWHITELIST = "${DEPLOY_DIR}/ ${TMPDIR}/pkgdata/"
+
 
 SSTATE_SCAN_FILES ?= "*.la *-config *_config"
 SSTATE_SCAN_CMD ?= 'find ${SSTATE_BUILDDIR} \( -name "${@"\" -o -name \"".join(d.getVar("SSTATE_SCAN_FILES", True).split())}" \) -type f'