diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
index c7ca4a6..66cde1c 100644
--- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ do_populate_lic[cleandirs] = "${LICSSTATEDIR}"
 license_create_manifest() {
 	mkdir -p ${LICENSE_DIRECTORY}/${IMAGE_NAME}
 	# Get list of installed packages
-	list_installed_packages | grep -v "locale" |sort > ${LICENSE_DIRECTORY}/${IMAGE_NAME}/package.manifest
+	list_installed_packages | grep -v "locale" | sort > ${LICENSE_DIRECTORY}/${IMAGE_NAME}/package.manifest
 	INSTALLED_PKGS=`cat ${LICENSE_DIRECTORY}/${IMAGE_NAME}/package.manifest`
 	LICENSE_MANIFEST="${LICENSE_DIRECTORY}/${IMAGE_NAME}/license.manifest"
 	# remove existing license.manifest file
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ license_create_manifest() {
 		rm ${LICENSE_MANIFEST}
 	fi
 	# list of installed packages is broken for deb
+	touch ${LICENSE_MANIFEST}
 	for pkg in ${INSTALLED_PKGS}; do
 		# not the best way to do this but licenses are not arch dependant iirc
 		filename=`ls ${TMPDIR}/pkgdata/*/runtime-reverse/${pkg}| head -1`