diff --git a/packages/network/ntp/meta b/packages/network/ntp/meta
index d76666c92d..0e05c170f0 100644
--- a/packages/network/ntp/meta
+++ b/packages/network/ntp/meta
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ PKG_SECTION="network"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="ntp: Network Time Protocol utilities"
 PKG_LONGDESC="The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. It provides client accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to a primary server synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via a Global Positioning Service (GPS) receiver, for example."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"