diff --git a/base/shadow-utils/centos/meta_patches/0001-Further-parallelize-shadow-utils-build.patch b/base/shadow-utils/centos/meta_patches/0001-Further-parallelize-shadow-utils-build.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ffc5b52c1..000000000
--- a/base/shadow-utils/centos/meta_patches/0001-Further-parallelize-shadow-utils-build.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-From d43499ba2cdd43110e3f689243aecc7acce8a6b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Ryan Tryhorn <ryan.tryhorn@windriver.com>
-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:43:43 -0400
-Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Further parallelize shadow-utils build
-
----
- SPECS/shadow-utils.spec | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/SPECS/shadow-utils.spec b/SPECS/shadow-utils.spec
-index dde526c..607247d 100644
---- a/SPECS/shadow-utils.spec
-+++ b/SPECS/shadow-utils.spec
-@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ export LC_ALL=C
-         --with-group-name-max-length=32
- # update the japanese translation
- (cd po; make ja.gmo)
--make
-+make -j"%(nproc)"
- 
- %install
- rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
--- 
-1.8.3.1
-
diff --git a/base/shadow-utils/centos/meta_patches/PATCH_ORDER b/base/shadow-utils/centos/meta_patches/PATCH_ORDER
index 6514b9467..3c14c230b 100644
--- a/base/shadow-utils/centos/meta_patches/PATCH_ORDER
+++ b/base/shadow-utils/centos/meta_patches/PATCH_ORDER
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 add-clear-shadow-locs-service-in-spec.patch
 0001-Update-package-versioning-for-TIS-format.patch
 add-BuildRequires-systemd.patch
-0001-Further-parallelize-shadow-utils-build.patch