diff --git a/80-rhel/runtime-postinstall.tmpl b/80-rhel/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
index 3b0890f..9408c38 100644
--- a/80-rhel/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
+++ b/80-rhel/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
@@ -118,12 +118,6 @@ append etc/lvm/lvm.conf "global {\n\tuse_lvmetad = 1\n}\n"
 remove etc/nvme/hostid
 remove etc/nvme/hostnqn
 
-## Record the package versions used to create the image
-## rpm initializes nss, which requires /dev/urandom to be present, hence the mknod
-runcmd chroot ${root} /usr/bin/mknod -m 666 /dev/random c 1 8
-runcmd chroot ${root} /usr/bin/mknod -m 666 /dev/urandom c 1 9
-runcmd chroot ${root} /usr/bin/rpm -qa --pipe "tee /root/lorax-packages.log"
-
 ## TODO: we could run prelink here if we wanted?
 
 ## fix fonconfig cache containing timestamps