diff --git a/src/backend/bs_publish b/src/backend/bs_publish
index 34d3790e5c0..aee253912d8 100755
--- a/src/backend/bs_publish
+++ b/src/backend/bs_publish
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ sub createrepo_rpmmd {
   push @createrepoargs, '--content', 'debug' if $data->{'dbgsplit'};
   push @createrepoargs, '--content', 'update' if ($repoinfo->{'projectkind'} || '') eq 'maintenance_incident';
   push @createrepoargs, '--content', 'update' if ($repoinfo->{'projectkind'} || '') eq 'maintenance_release';
+  push @createrepoargs, '--filelists_ext' if $options{'filelists_ext'};
   # createrepo_c 0.20.0 defaults to keep always additional metadata. We must change
   # to old behaviour or old data would stay forever when it got removed actually
   push @createrepoargs, '--discard-additional-metadata';