diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils/0001-update-alternatives-warn-when-multiple-providers-hav.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils/0001-update-alternatives-warn-when-multiple-providers-hav.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..afce1e1cc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils/0001-update-alternatives-warn-when-multiple-providers-hav.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Subject: update-alternatives: warn when multiple providers have the same priority
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
+---
+ update-alternatives | 3 +++
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/update-alternatives b/update-alternatives
+index ca01d5d..ffad853 100644
+--- a/update-alternatives
++++ b/update-alternatives
+@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ add_alt() {
+ 	local path="$2"
+ 	local priority="$3"
+ 	remove_alt $name $path
++	if grep -qw "$priority" $ad/$name; then
++		echo "Warn: update-alternatives: $name has multiple providers with the same priority, please check $ad/$name for details"
++	fi
+ 	echo "$path $priority" >> $ad/$name
+ }
+ 
+-- 
+2.8.3
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb
index 19a852ec62..7b01bfc346 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ PROVIDES += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'update-alternatives', 'virtu
 SRCREV = "3ffece9bf19a844edacc563aa092fd1fbfcffeee"
 PV = "0.3.2+git${SRCPV}"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils"
+SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils \
+           file://0001-update-alternatives-warn-when-multiple-providers-hav.patch"
 SRC_URI_append_class-native = " file://tar_ignore_error.patch"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"