diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
index 0da104fa0..0eded1d50 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ sub subvars {
             my $writerepo;
             my $c = 0;
             foreach my $pkgdir (@pkgdirs) {
-                if ($platform =~ /^(rh|SL|centos|fedora)$/) {
+                if ($platform =~ /^(rh|SL|centos|ol|fedora)$/) {
                     if ($c == 0) {
                         # After some tests, if we put the repo in  pre scripts in the kickstart like for rhels6.x
                         # the rhels5.9 will not be installed successfully. So put in kickstart directly.