diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3f51739..dbd31ed 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Wed Apr 18 2012 Davide Madrisan <davide.madrisan(a)gmail.com>
     platform development.
     (Asked by Silvan Calarco.)
 
+  * autospec.spec - Silvan Calarco:
+    Do not require '/usr/bin/host' in early stage platform development.
+
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 Changes in version 1.9.4
diff --git a/autospec.spec.in b/autospec.spec.in
index 4698872..1b79682 100644
--- a/autospec.spec.in
+++ b/autospec.spec.in
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ Requires(pre): rpm
 Requires:      cpio, coreutils, curl, findutils, grep, sed
 Requires:      /bin/mktemp
 Requires:      /usr/bin/getopt
+%if "%{stage1}" != "1"
 # host (and 'bind-utils') is not available in early stage platform development
-#Requires:      /usr/bin/host
+Requires:      /usr/bin/host
+%endif
 Requires:      bzip2
 Requires:      gzip
 Requires:      unzip