diff --git a/poky/scripts/oe-setup-builddir b/poky/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
index 5d64416..d3c7f94 100755
--- a/poky/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
+++ b/poky/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
@@ -38,16 +38,18 @@
 
 cd "$BUILDDIR"
 
-if [ -f "$BUILDDIR/conf/templateconf.cfg" ]; then
+if [ -f "$BUILDDIR/conf/templateconf.cfg" -a -z "$TEMPLATECONF" ]; then
     TEMPLATECONF=$(cat "$BUILDDIR/conf/templateconf.cfg")
+    # The following two are no longer valid; unsetting them will automatically get them replaced
+    # with correct ones.
+    if [ $TEMPLATECONF = "meta/conf" -o $TEMPLATECONF = "meta-poky/conf" ]; then
+        unset TEMPLATECONF
+        rm $BUILDDIR/conf/templateconf.cfg
+    fi
 fi
 
 . "$OEROOT"/.templateconf
 
-if [ ! -f "$BUILDDIR/conf/templateconf.cfg" ]; then
-    echo "$TEMPLATECONF" >"$BUILDDIR/conf/templateconf.cfg"
-fi
-
 # 
 # $TEMPLATECONF can point to a directory for the template local.conf & bblayers.conf
 #
@@ -61,6 +63,11 @@
             echo >&2 "Error: TEMPLATECONF value points to nonexistent directory '$TEMPLATECONF'"
             exit 1
         fi
+        templatesdir=$(python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.argv[1].strip('/').split('/')[-2])" $TEMPLATECONF)
+        if [ ! -f "$TEMPLATECONF/../../layer.conf" -o $templatesdir != "templates" ]; then
+            echo >&2 "Error: TEMPLATECONF value (which is $TEMPLATECONF) must point to meta-some-layer/conf/templates/template-name"
+            exit 1
+        fi
     fi
     OECORELAYERCONF="$TEMPLATECONF/bblayers.conf.sample"
     OECORELOCALCONF="$TEMPLATECONF/local.conf.sample"
@@ -129,3 +136,7 @@
 fi
 [ ! -r "$OECORENOTESCONF" ] || cat "$OECORENOTESCONF"
 unset OECORENOTESCONF
+
+if [ ! -f "$BUILDDIR/conf/templateconf.cfg" ]; then
+    echo "$TEMPLATECONF" >"$BUILDDIR/conf/templateconf.cfg"
+fi