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

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 8:05 AM Louis Rannou <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Human after all ! I decided to track down our dependencies to avahi and
> saw neither br or arch require it.
>
>
In this day and age, I appreciate the human effort :)


> Unfortunately I have no tool for this but I also realized that would be
> nice as we probably have others unneeded deps.
>
>
I've put it on my TODO list.

Thanks for the follow up.

Bruce



> 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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