diff --git a/package/openipmi/openipmi.mk b/package/openipmi/openipmi.mk
index 9590b446ef..ca8fa77342 100644
--- a/package/openipmi/openipmi.mk
+++ b/package/openipmi/openipmi.mk
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ OPENIPMI_SOURCE = OpenIPMI-$(OPENIPMI_VERSION).tar.gz
 OPENIPMI_LICENSE = LGPL-2.0+, GPL-2.0+, BSD-3-Clause
 OPENIPMI_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.LIB COPYING COPYING.BSD
 OPENIPMI_DEPENDENCIES = popt ncurses readline host-pkgconf
+OPENIPMI_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 # Patching Makefile.am
 OPENIPMI_AUTORECONF = YES
 OPENIPMI_CONF_ENV = ac_cv_path_pkgprog="$(PKG_CONFIG_HOST_BINARY)"