diff --git a/mpcdf_enable_repositories.py b/mpcdf_enable_repositories.py
index 10de2b4360e3f67b22f55a32445d1f047bf0d3f6..a1aa7d5ebfd4269f43260ab4c1c098474e46f315 100644
--- a/mpcdf_enable_repositories.py
+++ b/mpcdf_enable_repositories.py
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import osc.cmdln
 @osc.cmdln.option('--set', nargs=1, metavar="FLAGS",
                   help="Modify the set of enabled repositories, without this the current setup is displayed. "
                        "FLAGS is a comma-separated list of a subset of 'system', 'compilers', 'mpi', 'cuda', 'cuda_mpi'")
+@osc.cmdln.option('--disable', action="store_true", metavar="FLAGS",
+                  help="Disable building this package")
 @osc.cmdln.alias("mpcdf_enable_repos")
 def do_mpcdf_enable_repositories(self, subcmd, opts, *args):
     """${cmd_name}: Select all appropriate repositories for an MPCDF package
@@ -65,7 +67,9 @@ def do_mpcdf_enable_repositories(self, subcmd, opts, *args):
 
     api_url = self.get_api_url()
 
-    if opts.set:
+    if opts.disable:
+        mpcdf_common.set_attribute_values(api_url, project, package, "MPCDF:enable_repositories", "")
+    elif opts.set:
         mpcdf_common.set_attribute_values(api_url, project, package, "MPCDF:enable_repositories", opts.set.split(","))
 
         def set_or_remove(flag, attribute_name):
@@ -80,7 +84,7 @@ def do_mpcdf_enable_repositories(self, subcmd, opts, *args):
         set_or_remove(opts.cuda_modules,     "MPCDF:cuda_modules")
         set_or_remove(opts.compiler_modules, "MPCDF:compiler_modules")
 
-    if opts.recreate or opts.set:
+    if opts.recreate or opts.set or opts.disable:
         mpcdf_common.mpcdf_enable_repositories(api_url, project, package, verbose=True)
     elif (opts.compiler_modules or opts.mpi_modules or opts.cuda_modules):
         print("ERROR: Invalid arguments, try --help")