diff --git a/xCAT-buildkit/bin/buildkit b/xCAT-buildkit/bin/buildkit
index d058c0e81..c9c4b6d13 100755
--- a/xCAT-buildkit/bin/buildkit
+++ b/xCAT-buildkit/bin/buildkit
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ sub edit_bldkitconf
     my $kitcomponent_basename = $kitname."_compute";
 
     if ($debianflag==1) {
-       if($osarch == "ppc64le"){
+       if($osarch eq "ppc64le"){
        $osarch="ppc64el";
        }
        $kitcomponent_basename = $kitname."-compute";
@@ -1893,7 +1893,7 @@ sub validate_os
     chomp($osarch);
 
     if ($debianflag==1) {
-       if($osarch == "ppc64le"){
+       if($osarch eq "ppc64le"){
        $osarch="ppc64el";
        }
     }
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu14.04.ppc64le.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu14.04.ppc64le.pkglist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..818b8f26f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/compute.ubuntu14.04.ppc64le.pkglist
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+bash
+nfs-common
+openssl
+isc-dhcp-client
+libc-bin
+linux-image-generic
+openssh-server
+openssh-client
+wget
+vim
+ntp
+rsync
+busybox-static
+gawk
+dnsutils