1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index acce8ebc5d40..52f032e409a3 100644
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ if head=`git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null`; then
 
         # Are there uncommitted changes?
         git update-index --refresh --unmerged > /dev/null
-        if git diff-index HEAD | read dummy; then
+        if git diff-index --name-only HEAD | grep -v "^scripts/package" \
+            | read dummy; then
                 printf '%s' -dirty
         fi