Re: [meta-virtualization][PATCH] libvirt: remove obsolet depends to avahi

Hello,

Human after all ! I decided to track down our dependencies to avahi and saw neither br or arch require it.

Unfortunately I have no tool for this but I also realized that would be nice as we probably have others unneeded deps.

Louis

28 avr. 2026 13:45:47 Bruce Ashfield <[email protected]>:

> small typo in the shortlog fixed, and pushed to master.
> 
> I'm curious how you noticed the obselete depdency! If it
> is a scripted or specific prompt you used, I'd be
> interested to know if there are others like this lurking
> in the layer.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> In message: [meta-virtualization][PATCH] libvirt: remove obsolet depends to avahi
> on 27/04/2026 Louis Rannou via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> 
>> From: Louis Rannou <[email protected]>
>> 
>> libvirt has removed support for avahi in version 5.5.0 in 2019:
>> 
>>   * Remove Avahi mDNS support
>> 
>>     This feature was never used outside of virt-manager, which has itself
>>     stopped using it a while ago.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Louis Rannou <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Louis Rannou <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_git.bb | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_git.bb b/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_git.bb
>> index b5b0a5f2..34a1ff21 100644
>> --- a/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_git.bb
>> +++ b/recipes-extended/libvirt/libvirt_git.bb
>> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
>>                      file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=4b54a1fd55a448865a0b32d41598759d"
>> SECTION = "console/tools"
>> 
>> -DEPENDS = "bridge-utils gnutls libxml2 lvm2 avahi parted curl libpcap util-linux e2fsprogs pm-utils \
>> +DEPENDS = "bridge-utils gnutls libxml2 lvm2 parted curl libpcap util-linux e2fsprogs pm-utils \
>>        iptables dnsmasq readline libtasn1 libxslt-native acl libdevmapper libtirpc \
>>             python3-docutils-native \
>>        ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'polkit', 'shadow-native', '', d)} \
>> -- 
>> 2.53.0
>> 
> 
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