diff --git a/features.in/repo/rootfs/image-scripts.d/01-genbasedir-rootfs b/features.in/repo/rootfs/image-scripts.d/01-genbasedir-rootfs
index 12e53e20..377122a0 100755
--- a/features.in/repo/rootfs/image-scripts.d/01-genbasedir-rootfs
+++ b/features.in/repo/rootfs/image-scripts.d/01-genbasedir-rootfs
@@ -31,3 +31,5 @@ genbasedir \
 
 ### drop this when genbasedir is fixed (--no-uncompressed)
 for c in $COMPS; do rm -f base/{pkg,src}list.$c; done
+
+apt-get update