diff --git a/rpm/build_rpms.bsh b/rpm/build_rpms.bsh
index 5dc151b3..70e07e36 100755
--- a/rpm/build_rpms.bsh
+++ b/rpm/build_rpms.bsh
@@ -42,23 +42,6 @@ $SUDO yum install -y make curl rpm-build tar bison perl-Digest-SHA
 
 mkdir -p ${CURDIR}/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,SOURCES,RPMS,SRPMS}
 
-if ! command -v go; then
-  echo "Installing go... one way or another"
-  if [[ ${VERSION_ID[0]} == 5 ]]; then
-    $SUDO yum install -y curl.x86_64 glibc gcc
-    ${CURDIR}/golang_patch.bsh
-    "${RPMBUILD[@]}" -ba ${CURDIR}/SPECS/golang.spec
-    $SUDO yum install -y --nogpgcheck ${CURDIR}/RPMS/noarch/golang-1*.rpm \
-    ${CURDIR}/RPMS/noarch/golang-pkg-bin-linux-amd64-1*.rpm \
-    ${CURDIR}/RPMS/noarch/golang-src-1*.noarch.rpm \
-    ${CURDIR}/RPMS/noarch/golang-pkg-linux-amd64-1*.noarch.rpm \
-    ${CURDIR}/RPMS/noarch/golang-pkg-linux-386-1*.noarch.rpm
-  else
-    $SUDO yum install -y epel-release
-    $SUDO yum install -y golang
-  fi
-fi
-
 if command -v ruby > /dev/null 2>&1; then
   IFS_OLD=${IFS}
   IFS=.
diff --git a/rpm/golang_patch.bsh b/rpm/golang_patch.bsh
deleted file mode 100755
index 66734c2e..00000000
--- a/rpm/golang_patch.bsh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -eu
-
-cd $(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE[0]})/SOURCES
-
-#Get EPEL full list
-curl -L -O https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/fullfilelist
-#Get latest golang src rpm
-curl -L -O https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/$(grep '^6/SRPMS/golang-[0-9].*src.rpm' fullfilelist)
-rpm2cpio golang-*.src.rpm | cpio -diuv
-#Patch the spec file to patch the build to work on CentOS 5
-sed -ri 's|(^%build)|\1\nsed -i '"'"'s:.*--build-id.*::'"'"' ./src/cmd/go/build.go|' golang*.spec
-#Make SPEC CentOS 5 compliant
-sed -ri 's|(^Name:.*)|\1\nGroup: Software|' golang.spec
-sed -ri 's|(^Name:.*)|\1\nBuildRoot:      %(echo %{_topdir}/BUILDROOT/%{name}-%{version})|' golang.spec
-sed -ri 's|(^%package\s.*)|\1\nGroup: Software|' golang.spec
-sed -i 's|%ifarch %{ix86}|%if %_arch == i686|' golang.spec
-sed -i 's|%ifarch %{arm}|%if %_arch == armv6l|' golang.spec
-sed -i 's|%ifarch|%if %_arch ==|' golang.spec
-#The test WILL fail, so make the rpm not fail
-sed -ri 's;(.*run.bash.*);\1|true;' golang.spec
-mv golang.spec ../SPECS/
-