diff --git a/README b/README
index c6f6f4dfdf47c8d968d222216b95588821535a98..a8548898b9eb404aaea72a40200bf8ce9f1ba1a5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ STATE OF THIS WORK:
 INSTALLATION/SETUP:
   The repository only contains a layer for ROS that builds on top of the existing OpenEmbedded Core layer.
   Currently, I work with
-    * commit c8b411608bea2700e904141268f609eeee542ae2 of https://github.com/openembedded/oe-core
+    * commit 2587a33134fde80dd1367629d9def45ac70256ee of https://github.com/openembedded/oe-core
     * commit 324ed96e28ec31cff8cef1824d20d40f9a5d46ad of git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake in the bitbake directory
 
 
diff --git a/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg_0.4.17.bb b/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg_0.4.17.bb
index 674d515dd3d29ef7c5ecb6bc44b422fd6b0dce5d..2d0dd82fc6223e5e47dbb9397808ca0c82af8c6a 100644
--- a/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg_0.4.17.bb
+++ b/recipes-ros/genmsg/genmsg_0.4.17.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros/${BPN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz;downloadfilename=$
            file://0001-modify-msg-file-handling-to-reference-them-relatively.patch \
            "
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "python-stringold python-pprint python-io"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "python-stringold python-pprint"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "de385f1796bf025915ed7b20e1e1acc4"