diff --git a/libvirt.changes b/libvirt.changes
index 9d76833..5d52791 100644
--- a/libvirt.changes
+++ b/libvirt.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct 28 06:37:22 UTC 2020 - Franck Bui <fbui@suse.com>
+
+- Drop use of $DISABLE_RESTART_ON_UPDATE in %postrans
+
+  Testing "$DISABLE_RESTART_ON_UPDATE != yes" had no effect since its
+  value is supposed to be read from /etc/sysconfig/services.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct 14 16:44:22 UTC 2020 - James Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libvirt.spec b/libvirt.spec
index 122a7c4..7736934 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec
+++ b/libvirt.spec
@@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ fi
 # shutdown. We can't use try-restart as libvirtd will own the sockets again
 # after restart. So we must instead shutdown libvirtd, start the sockets,
 # then start libvirtd.
-if test "$YAST_IS_RUNNING" != "instsys" -a "$DISABLE_RESTART_ON_UPDATE" != yes ; then
+if test "$YAST_IS_RUNNING" != "instsys"; then
     /usr/bin/systemctl is-active libvirtd.service >/dev/null 2>&1
     if test $? = 0 ; then
         /usr/bin/systemctl stop libvirtd.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || :