diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host.bb b/common/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host.bb
index 641aa4d..2b40065 100644
--- a/common/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host.bb
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host.bb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 # Setup IPMI Whitelist Conf files
 WHITELIST_CONF = " \
-        ${STAGING_ETCDIR_NATIVE}/phosphor-ipmi-host/*.conf \
+        ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/phosphor-ipmi-host/*.conf \
         ${S}/host-ipmid-whitelist.conf \
         "
 EXTRA_OECONF = " \
diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/packagegroups/packagegroup-obmc-ipmid-providers.bb b/common/recipes-phosphor/packagegroups/packagegroup-obmc-ipmid-providers.bb
index 375e386..87d17f9 100644
--- a/common/recipes-phosphor/packagegroups/packagegroup-obmc-ipmid-providers.bb
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/packagegroups/packagegroup-obmc-ipmid-providers.bb
@@ -16,15 +16,3 @@
 OBMC_IPMID_WHITELISTS = "${@compose_list(d, 'WHITELIST_FORMAT', 'OBMC_IPMID_PROVIDERS')}"
 
 DEPENDS_append = "${OBMC_IPMID_WHITELISTS}"
-
-# Normally the dependency is between do_configure and
-# DEPENDS:do_populate_sysroot, but when a package is in the SSTATE cache the
-# do_configure step is not re-ran. The do_populate_sysroot tasks can themselves
-# be performed in parallel by bitbake.
-# Since the do_populate_sysroot task of this recipe doesn't provide the
-# whitelists itself, we need an explicit dependency on the whitelist's
-# do_populate_sysroot task so that the whitelists are present in time for an
-# application that needs them to be do_configured.
-
-WHITELIST_TASK_FORMAT = "{0}:do_populate_sysroot"
-do_populate_sysroot[depends] = "${@compose_list(d, 'WHITELIST_TASK_FORMAT', 'OBMC_IPMID_WHITELISTS')}"