diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb
index 611e0cafcc..18e227144a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 SUMMARY = "Full-featured set of base utils"
 DESCRIPTION = "Package group bringing in packages needed to provide much of the base utils type functionality found in busybox"
 
+PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
+
 inherit packagegroup
 
 VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_vim ?= "vim-tiny"