diff --git a/toolkit/locales/l10n.mk b/toolkit/locales/l10n.mk
index 2cc28f858a4d..89f86a3fb65d 100644
--- a/toolkit/locales/l10n.mk
+++ b/toolkit/locales/l10n.mk
@@ -211,5 +211,6 @@ generate-snippet-%:
           --application-ini-file=$(STAGEDIST)/application.ini \
           --locale=$* \
           --product=$(MOZ_PKG_APPNAME) \
+          --platform=$(MOZ_PKG_PLATFORM) \
           --download-base-URL=$(DOWNLOAD_BASE_URL) \
           --verbose
diff --git a/tools/update-packaging/generatesnippet.py b/tools/update-packaging/generatesnippet.py
index 6c49d31e733b..93475ff6af7e 100644
--- a/tools/update-packaging/generatesnippet.py
+++ b/tools/update-packaging/generatesnippet.py
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ def main():
                       action="store",
                       dest="product",
                       help="[Required] This option is used to generate the URL to download the MAR file.")
+    parser.add_option("--platform",
+                      action="store",
+                      dest="platform",
+                      help="[Required] This option is used to indicate which target platform.")
     parser.add_option("--download-base-URL",
                       action="store",
                       dest="downloadBaseURL",
@@ -80,7 +84,8 @@ def main():
     for req, msg in (('marPath', "the absolute path to the where the MAR file is"),
                      ('applicationIniFile', "the absolute path to the application.ini file."),
                      ('locale', "a locale."),
-                     ('product', "specify a product.")):
+                     ('product', "specify a product."),
+                     ('platform', "specify the platform.")):
         if not hasattr(options, req):
             parser.error('You must specify %s' % msg)
 
@@ -91,7 +96,8 @@ def main():
                               options.applicationIniFile,
                               options.locale,
                               options.downloadBaseURL,
-                              options.product)
+                              options.product,
+                              options.platform)
     f = open(os.path.join(options.marPath, 'complete.update.snippet'), 'wb')
     f.write(snippet)
     f.close()
@@ -101,7 +107,7 @@ def main():
         print snippet
 
 def generateSnippet(abstDistDir, applicationIniFile, locale,
-                    downloadBaseURL, product):
+                    downloadBaseURL, product, platform):
     # Let's extract information from application.ini
     c = ConfigParser()
     try:
@@ -116,7 +122,7 @@ def generateSnippet(abstDistDir, applicationIniFile, locale,
         product,
         appVersion,
         locale,
-        getPlatform())
+        platform)
     # Let's determine the hash and the size of the MAR file
     # This function exits the script if the file does not exist
     (completeMarHash, completeMarSize) = getFileHashAndSize(
@@ -148,14 +154,6 @@ sha1
 
     return snippet
 
-def getPlatform():
-    if platform.system() == "Linux":
-        return "linux-i686"
-    elif platform.system() in ("Windows", "Microsoft"):
-        return "win32"
-    elif platform.system() == "Darwin":
-        return "mac"
-
 def getFileHashAndSize(filepath):
     sha1Hash = 'UNKNOWN'
     size = 'UNKNOWN'