diff --git a/contrib/Makefile.in b/contrib/Makefile.in
index 72e4d4a9..62415152 100644
--- a/contrib/Makefile.in
+++ b/contrib/Makefile.in
@@ -84,52 +84,3 @@ $(CGI_O): $(CGI_C)
%.cgi : %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $< $(CGI_O) -o $@
-
-##############################################################################
-# making similar EPEL rpm for Fedora/RHEL/CentOS
-
-ifneq ("$(wildcard /etc/redhat-release)","")
-
-ARCH ?= $(shell uname -m)
-ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
-RPM_ARCH := x86_64
-else
- ifeq ($(ARCH),i686)
-RPM_ARCH := i386
- else
- ifeq ($(ARCH),aarch64)
-RPM_ARCH := aarch64
- else
-$(error Unknown arch "$(ARCH)".)
- endif
- endif
-endif
-
-# Create our own tarball and put ino rpmbuild/SOURCES
-localsrc-rpm:
- # create nagios tar ball.
- @(cd ..;rm -f nagios-@VERSION@)
- @(cd ..;ln -s . nagios-@VERSION@)
- @(cd ..;tar zhcf nagios-@VERSION@.tar.gz --exclude nagios-@VERSION@/nagios-@VERSION@.tar.gz --exclude nagios-@VERSION@/nagios-@VERSION@ --exclude RCS --exclude CVS --exclude build-* --exclude *~ --exclude .git* nagios-@VERSION@/)
- @(cd ..;rm -f nagios-@VERSION@)
- # build the rpm using rpmbuild from ./rmbuild as topdir
- @rm -rf rpmbuild && mkdir -p ./rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
- @cp ../nagios-@VERSION@.tar.gz rpmbuild/SOURCES/nagios-@VERSION@.tar.gz
- @cp epel-patches/* ./rpmbuild/SOURCES
- @rpmbuild -ba --define "_topdir ${PWD}/rpmbuild" epel-nagios.spec
- @cp rpmbuild/RPMS/$(RPM_ARCH)/*.rpm .
- @cp rpmbuild/SRPMS/*.src.rpm .
- @ls -l *.rpm
-
-# tarball from https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/releases/download/nagios-%{version}/nagios-%{version}.tar.gz
-rpm: init-epelrpm build-epelrpm
- @mv rpmbuild/RPMS/$(RPM_ARCH)/*.rpm .
- @ls -l *.rpm
-init-epelrpm:
- # build the rpm using rpmbuild from ./rmbuild as topdir
- @rm -rf ./rpmbuild && mkdir -p ./rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
- @spectool -C ./rpmbuild/SOURCES -g epel-nagios.spec
- @cp epel-patches/* ./rpmbuild/SOURCES
-build-epelrpm:
- @rpmbuild -ba --define "_topdir ${PWD}/rpmbuild" epel-nagios.spec
-endif