diff --git a/pungi/phases/gather/methods/method_hybrid.py b/pungi/phases/gather/methods/method_hybrid.py
index 0dcde6f6..d996236c 100644
--- a/pungi/phases/gather/methods/method_hybrid.py
+++ b/pungi/phases/gather/methods/method_hybrid.py
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ class GatherMethodHybrid(pungi.phases.gather.method.GatherMethodBase):
         multilib_whitelist=[],
         multilib_blacklist=[],
         filter_packages=[],
+        prepopulate=[],
         **kwargs
     ):
         self.arch = arch
@@ -186,6 +187,8 @@ class GatherMethodHybrid(pungi.phases.gather.method.GatherMethodBase):
             expand_groups(self.compose, arch, variant, groups, set_pkg_arch=False)
         )
 
+        packages.update(tuple(pkg.rsplit(".", 1)) for pkg in prepopulate)
+
         # Filters are received as tuples (name, arch), we should convert it to
         # strings.
         filter_packages = [_fmt_pkg(*p) for p in filter_packages]
diff --git a/tests/test_gather_method_hybrid.py b/tests/test_gather_method_hybrid.py
index 2e355e30..1abb5aed 100644
--- a/tests/test_gather_method_hybrid.py
+++ b/tests/test_gather_method_hybrid.py
@@ -48,13 +48,28 @@ class TestMethodHybrid(helpers.PungiTestCase):
         arch = "x86_64"
         variant = compose.variants["Server"]
 
-        res = m(arch, variant, package_sets, set(["pkg"]), ["standard"])
+        res = m(
+            arch,
+            variant,
+            package_sets,
+            set(["pkg"]),
+            ["standard"],
+            prepopulate=["prep.noarch"],
+        )
 
         self.assertEqual(res, ep.return_value)
         self.assertEqual(cmr.call_args_list, [mock.call(compose, variant, arch)])
         self.assertEqual(
             m.run_solver.call_args_list,
-            [mock.call(variant, arch, set(["pkg", "foo", "bar"]), cmr.return_value, [])],
+            [
+                mock.call(
+                    variant,
+                    arch,
+                    set(["pkg", "foo", "bar", ("prep", "noarch")]),
+                    cmr.return_value,
+                    [],
+                )
+            ],
         )
         self.assertEqual(
             ep.call_args_list,