diff --git a/classes/ros.bbclass b/classes/ros.bbclass
index 5ab8b7c83a3ebdfdeaf813109abdc20ca82b93a6..222672b1a0fab3e133b291f248b849b3bd1dd526 100644
--- a/classes/ros.bbclass
+++ b/classes/ros.bbclass
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ PREPROCESS_RELOCATE_DIRS += " \
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH .= ":${PKG_CONFIG_DIR}:${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${ros_libdir}/pkgconfig:${STAGING_DATADIR}/pkgconfig"
 PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR = "${ros_libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/site-packages"
 export PYTHONPATH = "${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
-PYTHONPATH_virtclass-native = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
+PYTHONPATH_class-native = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
 
 FILES_${PN} += "\
     ${ros_bindir}/* ${ros_libexecdir}/* ${ros_libdir}/lib*.so \
diff --git a/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_0.5.90.bb b/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_0.5.90.bb
index da027033b434796f18fa409d6e865ebf930dabe2..033f5e205143bc92b5a21746bc2273ba722d47ae 100644
--- a/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_0.5.90.bb
+++ b/recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_0.5.90.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require catkin.inc
 
-DEPENDS_virtclass-native += "catkin-runtime"
+DEPENDS_class-native += "catkin-runtime"
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "cmake make binutils binutils-symlinks gcc gcc-symlinks g++ g++-symlinks \