diff --git a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
index aa7a9a5..35e129b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
 
 POPULATE_SDK_POST_TARGET_COMMAND_append = " write_target_sdk_manifest ; "
 POPULATE_SDK_POST_HOST_COMMAND_append = " write_host_sdk_manifest; "
+SDK_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND = " create_sdk_files; tar_sdk; ${SDK_PACKAGING_FUNC}; "
 
 # Some archs override this, we need the nativesdk version
 # turns out this is hard to get from the datastore due to TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH
@@ -108,15 +109,6 @@
                     manifest_type=Manifest.MANIFEST_TYPE_SDK_TARGET)
 
     populate_sdk(d)
-
-    # Process DEFAULTTUNE
-    bb.build.exec_func("create_sdk_files", d)
-
-    bb.build.exec_func("tar_sdk", d)
-
-    sdk_packaging_func = d.getVar("SDK_PACKAGING_FUNC", True) or ""
-    if sdk_packaging_func.strip():
-        bb.build.exec_func(d.getVar("SDK_PACKAGING_FUNC", True), d)
 }
 
 fakeroot create_sdk_files() {
@@ -196,7 +188,7 @@
 	done
 }
 
-do_populate_sdk[dirs] = "${TOPDIR}"
+do_populate_sdk[dirs] = "${PKGDATA_DIR} ${TOPDIR}"
 do_populate_sdk[depends] += "${@' '.join([x + ':do_populate_sysroot' for x in d.getVar('SDK_DEPENDS', True).split()])}  ${@d.getVarFlag('do_rootfs', 'depends', False)}"
 do_populate_sdk[rdepends] = "${@' '.join([x + ':do_populate_sysroot' for x in d.getVar('SDK_RDEPENDS', True).split()])}"
 do_populate_sdk[recrdeptask] += "do_packagedata do_package_write_rpm do_package_write_ipk do_package_write_deb"