diff --git a/0001-Use-setuptools-to-get-a-recent-enough-version-of-pyt.patch b/0001-Use-setuptools-to-get-a-recent-enough-version-of-pyt.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index de3ad76..0000000
--- a/0001-Use-setuptools-to-get-a-recent-enough-version-of-pyt.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nur ansible-1.8.orig/bin/ansible ansible-1.8/bin/ansible
---- ansible-1.8.orig/bin/ansible	2014-11-25 15:43:06.000000000 -0700
-+++ ansible-1.8/bin/ansible	2014-11-25 17:07:30.183061715 -0700
-@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
- # along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- 
- ########################################################
-+__requires__ = ['ansible']
-+import pkg_resources
- 
- import os
- import sys
-diff -Nur ansible-1.8.orig/bin/ansible-playbook ansible-1.8/bin/ansible-playbook
---- ansible-1.8.orig/bin/ansible-playbook	2014-11-25 15:43:06.000000000 -0700
-+++ ansible-1.8/bin/ansible-playbook	2014-11-25 17:07:34.694979702 -0700
-@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
- 
- #######################################################
- 
--#__requires__ = ['ansible']
--#import pkg_resources
-+__requires__ = ['ansible']
-+import pkg_resources
- 
- import sys
- import os
-diff -Nur ansible-1.8.orig/bin/ansible-vault ansible-1.8/bin/ansible-vault
---- ansible-1.8.orig/bin/ansible-vault	2014-11-25 15:43:06.000000000 -0700
-+++ ansible-1.8/bin/ansible-vault	2014-11-25 17:06:50.668779958 -0700
-@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
- # ansible-vault is a script that encrypts/decrypts YAML files. See
- # http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_vault.html for more details.
- 
--#__requires__ = ['ansible']
--#import pkg_resources
-+__requires__ = ['ansible']
-+import pkg_resources
- 
- import os
- import sys
diff --git a/ansible-use-simplejson.patch b/ansible-use-simplejson.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1939008..0000000
--- a/ansible-use-simplejson.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-Index: ansible-1.8.2/lib/ansible/runner/filter_plugins/core.py
-===================================================================
---- ansible-1.8.2.orig/lib/ansible/runner/filter_plugins/core.py
-+++ ansible-1.8.2/lib/ansible/runner/filter_plugins/core.py
-@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@
- # along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- 
- import base64
--import json
-+try:
-+    # simplejson is faster and can be more up-to-date (more bugfixes) than the
-+    # stdlib json.  In py2.7 stdlib json is based on simplejson 2.0.9
-+    import simplejson as json
-+except ImportError:
-+    import json
- import os.path
- import yaml
- import types
diff --git a/ansible.spec b/ansible.spec
index 233cf4d..1b2c2b1 100644
--- a/ansible.spec
+++ b/ansible.spec
@@ -10,16 +10,11 @@ BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-buildroot
 Name: ansible
 Summary: SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system
 Version: 1.9.0.1
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 
 Group: Development/Libraries
 License: GPLv3
 Source0: http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-# Patch to make ansible-vault use the forward-compat python-crypto2.6 package
-# Upstreamed here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/6498
-Patch0: 0001-Use-setuptools-to-get-a-recent-enough-version-of-pyt.patch
-# Work around for a bug in python2.6's json library by preferring simplejson
-Patch1: ansible-use-simplejson.patch
 Url: http://ansible.com
 
 BuildArch: noarch
@@ -74,13 +69,6 @@ are transferred to managed machines automatically.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 
-%if 0%{?rhel} == 6
-# Patch to make ansible-vault use a newer pycrypto forward-compat package
-%patch0 -p1
-# Use simplejson to work around a bug in python2.6
-%patch1 -p1
-%endif
-
 %build
 %{__python} setup.py build
 
@@ -110,6 +98,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %doc %{_mandir}/man1/ansible*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Mar 25 2015 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com> 1.9.0.1-2
+- Drop upstreamed epel6 patches. 
+
 * Wed Mar 25 2015 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com> 1.9.0.1-1
 - Update to 1.9.0.1