diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-filter-buffertext-perl_1.01.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-filter-buffertext-perl_1.01.bb
index 77dd616..6247745 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-filter-buffertext-perl_1.01.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-filter-buffertext-perl_1.01.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPLv1+"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Filter-BufferText/"
 DEPENDS += "libxml-sax-perl-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libxml-sax-perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libxml-sax-perl"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RB/RBERJON/XML-Filter-BufferText-${PV}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "2992c0387632583b966ab9c965b25512"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-libxml-perl_2.0134.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-libxml-perl_2.0134.bb
index 6fabf26..58d0e4c 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-libxml-perl_2.0134.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-libxml-perl_2.0134.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         libxml-sax-perl-native \
         zlib \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
     libxml2 \
     libxml-sax-perl \
     libxml-sax-base-perl \
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@
 CFLAGS += " -D_GNU_SOURCE "
 BUILD_CFLAGS += " -D_GNU_SOURCE "
 
-FILES_${PN}-dbg =+ "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/XML/LibXML/.debug/"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg =+ "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/XML/LibXML/.debug/"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
     liburi-perl \
     perl-module-encode-byte \
     perl-module-encode-unicode \
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     perl-module-test-more \
 "
 
-do_install_prepend() {
+do_install:prepend() {
 	# test requires "-T" (taint) command line option
 	rm -rf ${B}/t/pod.t
 	# this only applies to author build
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb
index d1b0de0..ab684ea 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPLv1+"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-SAX-Writer/"
 DEPENDS += "libxml-filter-buffertext-perl-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libxml-filter-buffertext-perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libxml-filter-buffertext-perl"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PERIGRIN/XML-SAX-Writer-${PV}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3e3023c648e3003c04de2fb04435f8bd"