diff --git a/src/libpriv/rpmostree-postprocess.c b/src/libpriv/rpmostree-postprocess.c
index c7c489d6..5ce87a12 100644
--- a/src/libpriv/rpmostree-postprocess.c
+++ b/src/libpriv/rpmostree-postprocess.c
@@ -1014,7 +1014,9 @@ rpmostree_postprocess_final (int            rootfs_dfd,
   if (!glnx_shutil_mkdir_p_at (rootfs_dfd, preset_dir, 0755, cancellable, error))
     return FALSE;
   { g_autofree char *preset_path = g_build_filename (preset_dir, "40-rpm-ostree-auto.preset", NULL);
-    static const char remount_preset[] = "# Written by rpm-ostree compose tree\nenable ostree-remount.service\n";
+    static const char remount_preset[] = "# Written by rpm-ostree compose tree\n"
+                                         "enable ostree-remount.service\n"
+                                         "enable ostree-finalize-staged.path\n";
     if (!glnx_file_replace_contents_at (rootfs_dfd, preset_path, (guint8*)remount_preset,
                                         strlen (remount_preset),
                                         GLNX_FILE_REPLACE_NODATASYNC,
diff --git a/tests/compose-tests/test-basic.sh b/tests/compose-tests/test-basic.sh
index d237158f..bb43f7b4 100755
--- a/tests/compose-tests/test-basic.sh
+++ b/tests/compose-tests/test-basic.sh
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ echo "ok autovar"
 
 ostree --repo=${repobuild} cat ${treeref} /usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/40-rpm-ostree-auto.preset > preset.txt
 assert_file_has_content preset.txt '^enable ostree-remount.service$'
+assert_file_has_content preset.txt '^enable ostree-finalize-staged.path$'
 
 prepare_compose_test "from-yaml"
 python <<EOF