diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index a825c17236..f4de612711 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -95,9 +95,9 @@ PACKAGE_ARCH = "${BASE_PACKAGE_ARCH}"
 MACHINE_ARCH = "${@[bb.data.getVar('BASE_PACKAGE_ARCH', d, 1), bb.data.getVar('MACHINE', d, 1)][bool(bb.data.getVar('MACHINE', d, 1))].replace('-', '_')}"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS ??= "${TARGET_ARCH}"
 PACKAGE_ARCHS = "all any noarch ${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS} ${MACHINE_ARCH}"
-# MACHINE shouldn't be included here as a variable dependency since machine specific 
-# packages are handled using multimachine
-PACKAGE_ARCHS[vardepsexclude] = "MACHINE"
+# MACHINE_ARCH shouldn't be included here as a variable dependency
+# since machine specific packages are handled using multimachine
+PACKAGE_ARCHS[vardepsexclude] = "MACHINE_ARCH"
 
 MULTIMACH_ARCH = "${PACKAGE_ARCH}"
 MULTIMACH_TARGET_SYS = "${MULTIMACH_ARCH}${TARGET_VENDOR}-${TARGET_OS}"