diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 81f0594..17830b8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-SOURCES/pip-23.2.1-man.tar.gz
 SOURCES/pip-23.2.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/.python3.12-pip.metadata b/.python3.12-pip.metadata
index 451eb7c..4d3daac 100644
--- a/.python3.12-pip.metadata
+++ b/.python3.12-pip.metadata
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-e78411dc8b3a57af0c84b2b9a13365d2a87ffc36 SOURCES/pip-23.2.1-man.tar.gz
 f90fd7e09cdb6f87b7498942fd41157363868a3f SOURCES/pip-23.2.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/SPECS/python3.12-pip.spec b/SPECS/python3.12-pip.spec
index 18d4541..3cb574e 100644
--- a/SPECS/python3.12-pip.spec
+++ b/SPECS/python3.12-pip.spec
@@ -50,15 +50,6 @@ License:        MIT and Python and ASL 2.0 and BSD and ISC and LGPLv2 and MPLv2.
 URL:            https://pip.pypa.io/
 Source0:        https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/%{upstream_version}/%{srcname}-%{upstream_version}.tar.gz
 
-# To generate the man pages for RHEL8 on a system with Python >= 3.7
-# rhpkg prep
-# cd into the pip folder
-# sed -i '/myst_parser/d;/sphinx_copybutton/d;/sphinx_inline_tabs/d;/sphinxcontrib.towncrier/d' docs/html/conf.py
-# sphinx-build-3 -b man  docs/man  docs/build/man  -c docs/html
-# tar -czf pip-23.2.1-man.tar.gz  --exclude=".[^/]*" -v docs/build/man
-# mv pip-23.2.1-man.tar.gz ..
-Source1:        pip-%{base_version}-man.tar.gz
-
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 # Prevent removing of the system packages installed under /usr/lib
@@ -161,14 +152,6 @@ BuildRequires:  python%{python3_pkgversion}-installer
 # Side note: pip bundles pkg_resources from setuptools for internal usage.
 Recommends:     python%{python3_pkgversion}-setuptools
 
-# Require alternatives version that implements the --keep-foreign flag and fixes rhbz#2203820
-Requires(postun): alternatives >= 1.19.2-1
-
-# python3.12 installs the alternatives master symlink to which we attach a slave
-Requires: python%{python3_pkgversion}
-Requires(post): python%{python3_pkgversion}
-Requires(postun): python%{python3_pkgversion}
-
 # Virtual provides for the packages bundled by pip:
 %{bundled %{python3_pkgversion}}
 
@@ -211,6 +194,10 @@ sed -i '/\.exe/d' setup.py
 %build
 %py3_build_wheel
 
+export PYTHONPATH=./src/
+sphinx-build-3 -b man  docs/man  docs/build/man  -c docs/html
+
+
 %install
 # The following is similar to %%pyproject_install, but we don't have
 # /usr/bin/pip yet, so we install using the wheel directly.
@@ -230,7 +217,6 @@ sed -i '/\.exe/d' setup.py
     'pip==%{upstream_version}'
 
 # Install the man pages
-tar -xvf %{SOURCE1}
 pushd docs/build/man
 install -d %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1
 for MAN in *1; do
@@ -266,11 +252,6 @@ install -p dist/%{python_wheel_name} -t %{buildroot}%{python_wheel_dir}
 rm %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/pip
 rm %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/pip3
 
-# All ghost files controlled by alternatives need to exist for the files
-# section check to succeed
-touch %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/pip3
-touch %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/pip-3
-
 %check
 %if 0%{?rhel} >= 9
 # The test cannot run on RHEL8 due to the test script missing from RPM.
@@ -293,34 +274,6 @@ pytest_k='not completion'
 %endif
 
 
-%post -n python%{python3_pkgversion}-%{srcname}
-alternatives --keep-foreign --add-slave python3 %{_bindir}/python%{python3_version} \
-    %{_bindir}/pip3 \
-    pip3 \
-    %{_bindir}/pip%{python3_version}
-alternatives --keep-foreign --add-slave python3 %{_bindir}/python%{python3_version} \
-    %{_bindir}/pip-3 \
-    pip-3 \
-    %{_bindir}/pip-%{python3_version}
-
-%postun -n python%{python3_pkgversion}-%{srcname}
-# Do this only during uninstall process (not during update)
-if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
-    # Only remove the slave links if the master link for python3 still exists.
-    # Due to a possible bug in yum, python3.12 gets removed before python3.12-pip
-    # even though we have declared Requires(postun): python3.12
-    EXISTS=`alternatives --display python3 | \
-          grep -c "^/usr/bin/python%{python3_version} - priority [0-9]*"`
-
-    if [ $EXISTS -ne 0 ]; then
-        alternatives --keep-foreign --remove-slave python3 %{_bindir}/python%{python3_version} \
-            pip3
-        alternatives --keep-foreign --remove-slave python3 %{_bindir}/python%{python3_version} \
-            pip-3
-    fi
-fi
-
-
 %files -n python%{python3_pkgversion}-%{srcname}
 %doc README.rst
 %license %{python3_sitelib}/pip-%{upstream_version}.dist-info/LICENSE.txt
@@ -333,8 +286,6 @@ fi
 %{python3_sitelib}/pip*
 %dir %{bashcompdir}
 %{bashcompdir}/pip%{python3_pkgversion}
-%ghost %{_bindir}/pip3
-%ghost %{_bindir}/pip-3
 
 %files -n %{python_wheel_pkg_prefix}-%{srcname}-wheel
 %license LICENSE.txt