diff --git a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
index aefa766..56b0fea 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
+++ b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
@@ -245,3 +245,4 @@
 # phosphor-ipmi-fru-whitelist-native recipe.
 VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_phosphor-ipmi-providers ?= "phosphor-ipmi-fru"
 
+PREFERRED_VERSION_obmc-libobmc-intf = "1.0"
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf_git.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf_git.bb
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..85b134a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf_git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+obmc-libobmc-intf.bb
\ No newline at end of file