diff --git a/Makefile-rpm-ostree.am b/Makefile-rpm-ostree.am
index 3fcf18df..4e061a7e 100644
--- a/Makefile-rpm-ostree.am
+++ b/Makefile-rpm-ostree.am
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@
 # Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
 # Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 
-privlib_SCRIPTS = src/rpmqa-sorted-and-clean
-
 bin_PROGRAMS += rpm-ostree
 
 noinst_LTLIBRARIES += librpmostree.la
diff --git a/src/rpmqa-sorted-and-clean b/src/rpmqa-sorted-and-clean
deleted file mode 100755
index 683601b6..00000000
--- a/src/rpmqa-sorted-and-clean
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# An ugly shell script to get the sorted output of "rpm -qa", and also
-# ensure that leftover __db files are deleted afterwards.  This helps
-# avoid things like SELinux policy denials from processes that try to
-# write to the lock file if it exists (as they'd try to write to
-# usr_t).
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2014 Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
-# by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the licence or (at
-# your option) any later version.
-#
-# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-# Lesser General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General
-# Public License along with this library; if not, write to the
-# Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
-# Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
-set -e
-dbpath=$1
-test -n "$dbpath" || (echo 1>&2 "usage: $0 DBPATH"; exit 1)
-shift
-set -o pipefail
-rpm --dbpath=${dbpath} -qa | sort
-set +o pipefail
-rm -f ${dbpath}/__db.* ${dbpath}/{.dbenv,.rpm}.lock
-