diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/yum/bin/install-packages b/diskimage_builder/elements/yum/bin/install-packages
index 218c72e64..15a5f210f 100755
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/yum/bin/install-packages
+++ b/diskimage_builder/elements/yum/bin/install-packages
@@ -135,13 +135,6 @@ if [ -n "$WHITELIST" ]; then
     # [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965567
     set -o xtrace
     ${YUM} -v -y $ACTION $EXTRA_ARGS $PKGS
-
-    if [ "$ACTION" == "install" ]; then
-        if [ ${YUM} == "dnf" ]; then
-            # Make sure dnf won't autoremove these packages
-            dnf mark install $PKGS
-        fi
-    fi
     $_xtrace
 
     # probably not the right place for this; but python-pip package on
diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/yum/pre-install.d/00-dnf-update b/diskimage_builder/elements/yum/pre-install.d/00-dnf-update
deleted file mode 100755
index 30560a50f..000000000
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/yum/pre-install.d/00-dnf-update
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-if [ ${DIB_DEBUG_TRACE:-0} -gt 0 ]; then
-    set -x
-fi
-set -eu
-set -o pipefail
-
-if [[ $DISTRO_NAME == "fedora" && $DIB_RELEASE -eq 22 ]]; then
-    # we need dnf mark command from dnf 1.1.1, which is pretty recent
-    dnf --refresh update -y dnf
-fi