diff --git a/include/image.mk b/include/image.mk
index 5268f0bdb7850508dcfa88a39dd54fba4fc28209..62e3af9e4f6bbccef1f1c4f1386b0c0f3d7e3549 100644
--- a/include/image.mk
+++ b/include/image.mk
@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ define Device/DumpInfo
 Target-Profile: DEVICE_$(1)
 Target-Profile-Name: $(DEVICE_TITLE)
 Target-Profile-Packages: $(DEVICE_PACKAGES)
+Target-Profile-hasImageMetadata: $(if $(foreach image,$(IMAGES),$(findstring append-metadata,$(IMAGE/$(image)))),1,0)
 Target-Profile-Description:
 $(DEVICE_DESCRIPTION)
 @@
diff --git a/scripts/metadata.pm b/scripts/metadata.pm
index 5300e293e7bf9cdf737fc630f4b68fea9cf045e2..d9804f8dc382953c08c66518133a530d8968e7b6 100644
--- a/scripts/metadata.pm
+++ b/scripts/metadata.pm
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ sub parse_target_metadata($) {
 			$profile = {
 				id => $1,
 				name => $1,
+				has_image_metadata => 0,
 				priority => 999,
 				packages => []
 			};
@@ -146,6 +147,7 @@ sub parse_target_metadata($) {
 			push @{$target->{profiles}}, $profile;
 		};
 		/^Target-Profile-Name:\s*(.+)\s*$/ and $profile->{name} = $1;
+		/^Target-Profile-hasImageMetadata:\s*(\d+)\s*$/ and $profile->{has_image_metadata} = $1;
 		/^Target-Profile-Priority:\s*(\d+)\s*$/ and do {
 			$profile->{priority} = $1;
 			$target->{sort} = 1;
diff --git a/scripts/target-metadata.pl b/scripts/target-metadata.pl
index ef0a34eb4ffae2fe9b8b50d6b4295600eee6f2f3..2f045eb3798d67ab0badf8f93d56633d661dbc43 100755
--- a/scripts/target-metadata.pl
+++ b/scripts/target-metadata.pl
@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ sub gen_profile_mk() {
 		print "PROFILE_NAMES = ".join(" ", map { $_->{id} } @{$cur->{profiles}})."\n";
 		foreach my $profile (@{$cur->{profiles}}) {
 			print $profile->{id}.'_NAME:='.$profile->{name}."\n";
+			print $profile->{id}.'_HAS_IMAGE_METADATA:='.$profile->{has_image_metadata}."\n";
 			print $profile->{id}.'_PACKAGES:='.join(' ', @{$profile->{packages}})."\n";
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/target/imagebuilder/files/Makefile b/target/imagebuilder/files/Makefile
index 76ea19028ed9b2a4b06d96f01bc2d29b69495958..1370ec27dfe15b77ff4fcda1d158834906548691 100644
--- a/target/imagebuilder/files/Makefile
+++ b/target/imagebuilder/files/Makefile
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/target.mk
 
 USER_PROFILE ?= $(firstword $(PROFILE_NAMES))
 PROFILE_LIST = $(foreach p,$(PROFILE_NAMES), \
-	echo '$(patsubst DEVICE_%,%,$(p)):'; $(if $($(p)_NAME),echo '    $(subst ','"'"',$($(p)_NAME))'; ) echo '    Packages: $($(p)_PACKAGES)'; \
+	echo '$(patsubst DEVICE_%,%,$(p)):'; $(if $($(p)_NAME),echo '    $(subst ','"'"',$($(p)_NAME))'; ) echo '    Packages: $($(p)_PACKAGES)'; echo '    hasImageMetadata: $($(p)_HAS_IMAGE_METADATA)';\
 )
 
 .profiles.mk: .targetinfo