diff --git a/files/kojibuilder/builders/bkernel-site-defaults.cfg b/files/kojibuilder/builders/bkernel-site-defaults.cfg
index 6290807f28..fe4279fb34 100644
--- a/files/kojibuilder/builders/bkernel-site-defaults.cfg
+++ b/files/kojibuilder/builders/bkernel-site-defaults.cfg
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # mount the pesign socket into the chroot
 config_opts['plugin_conf']['bind_mount_opts']['dirs'].append(('/var/run/pesign', '/var/run/pesign' ))
+config_opts['plugin_conf']['package_state_enable'] = False
diff --git a/files/kojibuilder/builders/site-defaults.cfg b/files/kojibuilder/builders/site-defaults.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d3c94e3400
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/kojibuilder/builders/site-defaults.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+config_opts['plugin_conf']['package_state_enable'] = False
diff --git a/tasks/koji/base_builder.yml b/tasks/koji/base_builder.yml
index 8e6b780677..7f04d3affc 100644
--- a/tasks/koji/base_builder.yml
+++ b/tasks/koji/base_builder.yml
@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@
     - fedora-rawhide-pungi-i386.cfg
     - fedora-rawhide-pungi-x86_64.cfg
 
+- name: mock site-defaults.cfg
+  action: copy src=$files/kojibuilder/builders/site-defaults.cfg dest=/etc/mock/site-defaults.cfg mode=0644 owner=root group=mock
+  only_if: "not '${inventory_hostname}'.startswith(('bkernel'))"
+
 - name: ntp steptickers
   action: copy src=$files/common/step-tickers dest=/etc/ntp/step-tickers