diff --git a/packages/sysutils/par2cmdline/meta b/packages/sysutils/par2cmdline/meta
index e4bf2ff15c..e85016dbcb 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/par2cmdline/meta
+++ b/packages/sysutils/par2cmdline/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="system"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="par2cmdline: a utility to create and repair data files using Reed Solomon coding."
 PKG_LONGDESC="This is a concurrent (multithreaded) version of par2cmdline, a utility to create and repair data files using Reed Solomon coding. par2 parity archives are commonly used on Usenet postings to allow corrupted postings to be repaired instead of needing the original poster to repost the corrupted file(s)."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"