diff --git a/poky/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index 5a0b0c6..78ae28b 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@
     if isinstance(e, bb.event.ConfigParsed):
         if not d.getVar("NATIVELSBSTRING", False):
             d.setVar("NATIVELSBSTRING", lsb_distro_identifier(d))
+        d.setVar("ORIGNATIVELSBSTRING", d.getVar("NATIVELSBSTRING", False))
         d.setVar('BB_VERSION', bb.__version__)
 
     # There might be no bb.event.ConfigParsed event if bitbake server is