diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 5511be7c..62def073 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -112,10 +112,6 @@ config INFIX_ARCH
 	default "riscv64" if BR2_riscv
 	default "x86_64"  if BR2_x86_64
 
-menu "Packages"
-
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/Config.in"
-
-endmenu
-
+source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/Config.in.host"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/board/common/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 9b5dbd55..500f2ef8 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+menu "Packages"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/confd/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/curios-httpd/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/execd/Config.in"
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/mcd/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/mdns-alias/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/netbrowse/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/podman/Config.in"
+source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/python-libyang/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/python-statd/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/skeleton-init-finit/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/tetris/Config.in"
@@ -28,4 +30,4 @@ source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/libyang-cpp/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/sysrepo-cpp/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/rousette/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/nghttp2-asio/Config.in"
-
+endmenu
diff --git a/package/Config.in.host b/package/Config.in.host
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ba2ea03d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/Config.in.host
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+menu "Host utilities"
+source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/python-libyang/Config.in.host"
+endmenu
diff --git a/package/python-libyang/Config.in b/package/python-libyang/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8cf43d7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-libyang/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_LIBYANG
+	bool "python-libyang"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PIP  # buildtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_CFFI # runtime
+	help
+	  CFFI bindings to libyang.
+
+	  https://github.com/CESNET/libyang-python
diff --git a/package/python-libyang/Config.in.host b/package/python-libyang/Config.in.host
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6538ca49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-libyang/Config.in.host
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_PYTHON_LIBYANG
+	bool "host python-libyang"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_PYTHON_CFFI # runtime
+	help
+	  CFFI bindings to libyang.
+
+	  https://github.com/CESNET/libyang-python
diff --git a/package/python-libyang/python-libyang.hash b/package/python-libyang/python-libyang.hash
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9c9897ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-libyang/python-libyang.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/libyang/json
+md5  46332891cac852441b523f7e71a507f7  libyang-3.0.1.tar.gz
+sha256  57f8b234131fb073518313351288194e535d74cc8fdff7f0ff7e31c0ab33e663  libyang-3.0.1.tar.gz
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
+sha256  c8d554f918d32b1467f35829e1cfb753764dd683c6edcecc877a4d7e9f05b2a7  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-libyang/python-libyang.mk b/package/python-libyang/python-libyang.mk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3e50c8c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-libyang/python-libyang.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-libyang
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_LIBYANG_VERSION = 3.0.1
+PYTHON_LIBYANG_SOURCE = libyang-$(PYTHON_LIBYANG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_LIBYANG_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/91/2e/ff13ee16c874d232d5d3fdff83f629cbc9ac47f9aaf2b59256b6a1bdbc16
+PYTHON_LIBYANG_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_LIBYANG_LICENSE = MIT
+PYTHON_LIBYANG_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+HOST_PYTHON_LIBYANG_DEPENDENCIES = host-python-cython host-python-cffi
+
+$(eval $(host-python-package))