diff --git a/meta-ros2-eloquent/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-ftdi_1.0.0-1.bbappend b/meta-ros2-eloquent/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-ftdi_1.0.0-1.bbappend
index c5bb86bdb1c..0f37dc6096d 100644
--- a/meta-ros2-eloquent/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-ftdi_1.0.0-1.bbappend
+++ b/meta-ros2-eloquent/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-ftdi_1.0.0-1.bbappend
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 
 FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${BPN}:"
 SRC_URI += "file://0001-CMakeLists-update-libusb-libftdi-pkg-config-names-to.patch"
+
+PNBLACKLIST[kobuki-ftdi] ?= "Not compatible with newer libftdi included in meta-oe: https://github.com/kobuki-base/kobuki_ftdi/issues/3"
diff --git a/meta-ros2-eloquent/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-ros-world-eloquent.bb b/meta-ros2-eloquent/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-ros-world-eloquent.bb
index f0171a34e3e..137730477ec 100644
--- a/meta-ros2-eloquent/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-ros-world-eloquent.bb
+++ b/meta-ros2-eloquent/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-ros-world-eloquent.bb
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = "spatio-temporal-voxel-layer"
 # Depends on coin-or libcbc for which we don't have recipes yet
 RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = "popf plansys2-executor plansys2-terminal plansys2-multidomain-example plansys2-simple-example plansys2-patrol-navigation-example"
 
+# Depends on older libftdi than what we have in meta-oe
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = "kobuki-ftdi"
+
 # "rmw-fastrtps-dynamic-cpp" is mentioned in http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-2000.html, so make sure we always build it (it appears in
 # ROS_SUPERFLORE_GENERATED_TESTS, so it's not been added to ROS_SUPERFLORE_GENERATED_WORLD_PACKAGES).
 RDEPENDS_${PN}_append = " rmw-fastrtps-dynamic-cpp"