diff --git a/bin/pungi-gather b/bin/pungi-gather
index daf80f2c..aa70977b 100755
--- a/bin/pungi-gather
+++ b/bin/pungi-gather
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ def main(persistdir, cachedir):
     gather_opts.multilib_whitelist = ksparser.handler.multilib_whitelist
     gather_opts.prepopulate = ksparser.handler.prepopulate
     gather_opts.fulltree_excludes = ksparser.handler.fulltree_excludes
+    gather_opts.package_whitelist = ksparser.handler.package_whitelist
 
     g = Gather(dnf_obj, gather_opts)
 
diff --git a/pungi/gather_dnf.py b/pungi/gather_dnf.py
index 5b905638..f4dda5b3 100644
--- a/pungi/gather_dnf.py
+++ b/pungi/gather_dnf.py
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ class GatherOptions(pungi.common.OptionsBase):
         # lookaside repos; packages will be flagged accordingly
         self.lookaside_repos = []
 
+        self.package_whitelist = set()
+
         self.merge_options(**kwargs)
 
 
@@ -363,14 +365,29 @@ class Gather(GatherBase):
                 self.logger.debug("EXCLUDED by %s: %s", pattern, [str(p) for p in pkgs])
                 self.dnf._sack.add_excludes(pkgs)
 
+        all_queues = ['q_binary_packages', 'q_native_binary_packages',
+                      'q_multilib_binary_packages', 'q_noarch_binary_packages',
+                      'q_source_packages', 'q_native_debug_packages',
+                      'q_multilib_debug_packages']
+
+        if self.opts.package_whitelist:
+            with Profiler("Gather._apply_excludes():apply-package-whitelist'"):
+                to_keep = []
+                for pattern in self.opts.package_whitelist:
+                    nvra = parse_nvra(pattern)
+                    nvra.pop('src')
+                    try:
+                        nvra['epoch'] = int(nvra.pop('epoch'))
+                    except ValueError:
+                        pass
+                    to_keep.extend(self._query.filter(**nvra).run())
+
+                for queue in all_queues:
+                    setattr(self, queue, getattr(self, queue).filter(pkg=to_keep).latest().apply())
+
         with Profiler("Gather._apply_excludes():exclude-queries"):
-            self._filter_queue('q_binary_packages', exclude)
-            self._filter_queue('q_native_binary_packages', exclude)
-            self._filter_queue('q_multilib_binary_packages', exclude)
-            self._filter_queue('q_noarch_binary_packages', exclude)
-            self._filter_queue('q_source_packages', exclude)
-            self._filter_queue('q_native_debug_packages', exclude)
-            self._filter_queue('q_multilib_debug_packages', exclude)
+            for queue in all_queues:
+                self._filter_queue(queue, exclude)
 
     @Profiler("Gather.add_initial_packages()")
     def add_initial_packages(self, pattern_list):
diff --git a/tests/test_gather.py b/tests/test_gather.py
index 5aa09ce7..81df6324 100644
--- a/tests/test_gather.py
+++ b/tests/test_gather.py
@@ -1846,8 +1846,71 @@ class DNFDepsolvingTestCase(DepsolvingBase, unittest.TestCase):
     def test_bash_older(self):
         pass
 
+    def test_whitelist_old_version(self):
+        # There are two version of dummy-bash in the package set; let's
+        # whitelist only the older one and its dependencies.
+        packages = [
+            "dummy-bash",
+        ]
+        package_whitelist = [
+            "dummy-basesystem-10.0-6.noarch",
+            "dummy-basesystem-10.0-6.src",
+            "dummy-bash-debuginfo-4.2.37-5.x86_64",
+            "dummy-bash-4.2.37-5.x86_64",
+            "dummy-bash-4.2.37-5.src",
+            "dummy-filesystem-4.2.37-6.x86_64",
+            "dummy-filesystem-4.2.37-6.src",
+            "dummy-glibc-common-2.14-5.x86_64",
+            "dummy-glibc-debuginfo-common-2.14-5.x86_64",
+            "dummy-glibc-debuginfo-2.14-5.x86_64",
+            "dummy-glibc-2.14-5.x86_64",
+            "dummy-glibc-2.14-5.src",
+        ]
+        pkg_map = self.go(packages, None, greedy="none", package_whitelist=package_whitelist)
+
+        self.assertNotIn("dummy-bash-4.2.37-5.i686.rpm", pkg_map["rpm"])
+        self.assertNotIn("dummy-bash-4.2.37-6.i686.rpm", pkg_map["rpm"])
+        self.assertNotIn("dummy-bash-4.2.37-6.x86_64.rpm", pkg_map["rpm"])
+
+        self.assertItemsEqual(pkg_map["rpm"], [
+            "dummy-basesystem-10.0-6.noarch.rpm",
+            "dummy-bash-4.2.37-5.x86_64.rpm",
+            "dummy-filesystem-4.2.37-6.x86_64.rpm",
+            "dummy-glibc-2.14-5.x86_64.rpm",
+            "dummy-glibc-common-2.14-5.x86_64.rpm",
+        ])
+        self.assertItemsEqual(pkg_map["srpm"], [
+            "dummy-basesystem-10.0-6.src.rpm",
+            "dummy-bash-4.2.37-5.src.rpm",
+            "dummy-filesystem-4.2.37-6.src.rpm",
+            "dummy-glibc-2.14-5.src.rpm",
+        ])
+        self.assertItemsEqual(pkg_map["debuginfo"], [
+            "dummy-bash-debuginfo-4.2.37-5.x86_64.rpm",
+            "dummy-glibc-debuginfo-2.14-5.x86_64.rpm",
+            "dummy-glibc-debuginfo-common-2.14-5.x86_64.rpm",
+        ])
+
     def test_firefox_selfhosting_with_krb5_lookaside(self):
         super(DNFDepsolvingTestCase, self).test_firefox_selfhosting_with_krb5_lookaside()
         self.assertFlags("dummy-krb5-devel-1.10-5.x86_64", [PkgFlag.lookaside])
         self.assertFlags("dummy-krb5-1.10-5.src", [PkgFlag.lookaside])
         self.assertFlags("dummy-krb5-debuginfo-1.10-5.x86_64", [PkgFlag.lookaside])
+
+    def test_package_whitelist(self):
+        packages = ['*']
+        whitelist = [
+            'dummy-bash-4.2.37-6.x86_64',
+            'dummy-bash-4.2.37-6.src',
+        ]
+
+        pkg_map = self.go(packages, None, package_whitelist=whitelist)
+
+        self.assertItemsEqual(pkg_map["rpm"], [
+            'dummy-bash-4.2.37-6.x86_64.rpm',
+        ])
+        self.assertItemsEqual(pkg_map["srpm"], [
+            'dummy-bash-4.2.37-6.src.rpm',
+        ])
+        self.assertItemsEqual(pkg_map["debuginfo"], [
+        ])