diff --git a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
index 0cb7403..c78a68b 100644
--- a/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/poky/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
@@ -1076,9 +1076,10 @@
     def test_devtool_update_recipe_append_git(self):
         # Check preconditions
         testrecipe = 'mtd-utils-selftest'
-        bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['FILE', 'SRC_URI'], testrecipe)
+        bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['FILE', 'SRC_URI', 'LAYERSERIES_CORENAMES'], testrecipe)
         recipefile = bb_vars['FILE']
         src_uri = bb_vars['SRC_URI']
+        corenames = bb_vars['LAYERSERIES_CORENAMES']
         self.assertIn('git://', src_uri, 'This test expects the %s recipe to be a git recipe' % testrecipe)
         for entry in src_uri.split():
             if entry.startswith('git://'):
@@ -1109,7 +1110,7 @@
             f.write('BBFILE_PATTERN_oeselftesttemplayer = "^${LAYERDIR}/"\n')
             f.write('BBFILE_PRIORITY_oeselftesttemplayer = "999"\n')
             f.write('BBFILE_PATTERN_IGNORE_EMPTY_oeselftesttemplayer = "1"\n')
-            f.write('LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_oeselftesttemplayer = "${LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_core}"\n')
+            f.write('LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_oeselftesttemplayer = "%s"\n' % corenames)
         self.add_command_to_tearDown('bitbake-layers remove-layer %s || true' % templayerdir)
         result = runCmd('bitbake-layers add-layer %s' % templayerdir, cwd=self.builddir)
         # Create the bbappend