diff --git a/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-yarn-dist.xml b/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-yarn-dist.xml
index 8423e708cbe..7f0906b52cd 100644
--- a/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-yarn-dist.xml
+++ b/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-yarn-dist.xml
@@ -207,8 +207,7 @@
       <outputDirectory>/share/hadoop/${hadoop.component}/lib</outputDirectory>
       <!-- Exclude hadoop artifacts. They will be found via HADOOP* env -->
       <excludes>
-        <exclude>org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common</exclude>
-        <exclude>org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-hdfs</exclude>
+        <exclude>org.apache.hadoop:*</exclude>
         <!-- use slf4j from common to avoid multiple binding warnings -->
         <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-api</exclude>
         <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12</exclude>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 51fd15f0d1c..54a84274520 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -320,6 +320,8 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-1603. Remove two *.orig files which were unexpectedly committed. 
     (Zhijie Shen via junping_du)
 
+    YARN-1601. 3rd party JARs are missing from hadoop-dist output. (tucu)
+
 Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
index cb0750a51db..b84e50fe577 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,42 @@
     <module>hadoop-yarn</module>
   </modules>
 
-  <!-- Do not add dependencies here, add them to the POM of the leaf module -->
+  <!--
+  Do not add 3rd party dependencies here, add them to the POM of the leaf module
+
+  The dependencies in this module are for the assembly plugin, packaging purposes
+  -->
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-api</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-client</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-common</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-common</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-web-proxy</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
 
   <build>
     <plugins>