diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_5.4.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_5.4.0.bb
index 2c0c076..122d3a9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_5.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/rpm_5.4.0.bb
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 DEPENDS = "bzip2 zlib db openssl elfutils expat libpcre attr acl popt ${extrarpmdeps}"
 extrarpmdeps = "python perl"
 extrarpmdeps_virtclass-native = "file-native"
-PR = "r26"
+PR = "r27"
 
 # rpm2cpio is a shell script, which is part of the rpm src.rpm.  It is needed
 # in order to extract the distribution SRPM into a format we can extract...
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ do_configure() {
 
 	./autogen.sh
 
+	export varprefix=${localstatedir}
 	oe_runconf
 }