diff --git a/.cci.jenkinsfile b/.cci.jenkinsfile
index 20929eca..77bb2230 100644
--- a/.cci.jenkinsfile
+++ b/.cci.jenkinsfile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ parallel rpms: {
         # binaries from PRs in the future) and meshes well with the following stages.
         export PATH="\$HOME/.cargo/bin:\$PATH"
         cargo install cbindgen
-        cbindgen -c rust/cbindgen.toml -o rpmostree-rust.h rust
+        cbindgen -c cbindgen.toml -o rpmostree-rust.h .
 
         cd packaging
         make -f Makefile.dist-packaging rpm
diff --git a/rust/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
similarity index 100%
rename from rust/Cargo.lock
rename to Cargo.lock
diff --git a/rust/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
similarity index 93%
rename from rust/Cargo.toml
rename to Cargo.toml
index c381c337..ae096a61 100644
--- a/rust/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 envsubst = "0.2.0"
 subprocess = "0.2.6"
 chrono = { version = "0.4.19", features = ["serde"] }
-libdnf-sys = { path = "libdnf-sys", version = "0.1.0" }
+libdnf-sys = { path = "rust/libdnf-sys", version = "0.1.0" }
 
 [lib]
 name = "rpmostree_rust"
-path = "src/lib.rs"
+path = "rust/src/lib.rs"
 crate-type = ["staticlib"]
 
 [profile.release]
diff --git a/Makefile-rpm-ostree.am b/Makefile-rpm-ostree.am
index 229d9983..b1cfdb12 100644
--- a/Makefile-rpm-ostree.am
+++ b/Makefile-rpm-ostree.am
@@ -100,23 +100,19 @@ librpmostree_rust_path = @abs_top_builddir@/target/@RUST_TARGET_SUBDIR@/librpmos
 # If the target directory exists, and isn't owned by our uid, then
 # we exit with a fatal error, since someone probably did `make && sudo make install`,
 # and in this case cargo will download into ~/.root which we don't want.
-LIBRPMOSTREE_RUST_SRCS = $(shell find rust/src/ -name '*.rs') rust/cbindgen.toml
+LIBRPMOSTREE_RUST_SRCS = $(shell find rust/src/ -name '*.rs') Cargo.toml Cargo.lock cbindgen.toml
 $(librpmostree_rust_path): Makefile $(LIBRPMOSTREE_RUST_SRCS)
-	cd $(top_srcdir)/rust && \
-	  export CARGO_TARGET_DIR=@abs_top_builddir@/target && \
-    target_subdir=@abs_top_builddir@/target/@RUST_TARGET_SUBDIR@; \
-	  if test -d "$${target_subdir}" && [ "$$(stat -c '%u' $${target_subdir})" != "$$(id -u)" ]; then echo "mismatched uids on build"; exit 1; fi && \
-	  $(cargo_build) $(CARGO_RELEASE_ARGS)
-EXTRA_DIST += $(LIBRPMOSTREE_RUST_SRCS) rust/Cargo.lock
+	$(cargo_build) $(CARGO_RELEASE_ARGS)
+EXTRA_DIST += $(LIBRPMOSTREE_RUST_SRCS)
 
 # Generate bindings from Rust to C
 if !HAVE_PREBUILT_CBINDGEN
 if HAVE_EXTERNAL_CBINDGEN
 rpmostree-rust.h:
-	$(AM_V_GEN) cbindgen -c rust/cbindgen.toml -o $@ $(top_srcdir)/rust
+	$(AM_V_GEN) cbindgen -c rust/cbindgen.toml -o $@ $(top_srcdir)
 else
 rpmostree-rust.h: rpmostree-bindgen
-	$(AM_V_GEN) ./rpmostree-bindgen $(top_srcdir)/rust
+	$(AM_V_GEN) ./rpmostree-bindgen $(top_srcdir)
 endif
 BUILT_SOURCES += rpmostree-rust.h
 endif
diff --git a/rust/cargo-vendor-config b/cargo-vendor-config
similarity index 100%
rename from rust/cargo-vendor-config
rename to cargo-vendor-config
diff --git a/rust/cbindgen.toml b/cbindgen.toml
similarity index 100%
rename from rust/cbindgen.toml
rename to cbindgen.toml
diff --git a/packaging/make-git-snapshot.sh b/packaging/make-git-snapshot.sh
index 853c9aee..fb69c907 100755
--- a/packaging/make-git-snapshot.sh
+++ b/packaging/make-git-snapshot.sh
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ mkdir ${tmpd} && touch ${tmpd}/.tmp
 
 (cd ${tmpd}
  mkdir -p .cargo vendor
- (cd ${TOP}/rust && cargo vendor ${tmpd}/vendor)
- cp ${TOP}/rust/Cargo.lock .
- cp ${TOP}/rust/cargo-vendor-config .cargo/config
+ (cd ${TOP} && cargo vendor ${tmpd}/vendor)
+ cp ${TOP}/Cargo.lock .
+ cp ${TOP}/cargo-vendor-config .cargo/config
  # Filter out bundled libcurl and systemd; we always want the pkgconfig ones
  for crate_subdir in curl-sys/curl \
                      libz-sys/src/zlib \