diff --git a/meta/classes/devtool-source.bbclass b/meta/classes/devtool-source.bbclass
index 3e24800dcb..9762003ba7 100644
--- a/meta/classes/devtool-source.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/devtool-source.bbclass
@@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ python devtool_post_patch() {
                 # (otherwise we'd likely be left with identical commits that have different hashes)
                 bb.process.run('git rebase devtool-no-overrides', cwd=srcsubdir)
         bb.process.run('git checkout %s' % devbranch, cwd=srcsubdir)
-    bb.process.run('git tag -f devtool-patched', cwd=srcsubdir)
+    bb.process.run('git tag -f --no-sign devtool-patched', cwd=srcsubdir)
     if os.path.exists(os.path.join(srcsubdir, '.gitmodules')):
-        bb.process.run('git submodule foreach --recursive  "git tag -f devtool-patched"', cwd=srcsubdir)
+        bb.process.run('git submodule foreach --recursive  "git tag -f --no-sign devtool-patched"', cwd=srcsubdir)
 
 }