diff --git a/rear.spec b/rear.spec
index 4e3feb0..a9f434f 100644
--- a/rear.spec
+++ b/rear.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ URL: http://relax-and-recover.org/
 # as GitHub stopped with download section we need to go back to Sourceforge for downloads
 Source: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rear/files/rear/%{version}/rear-%{version}.tar.gz
 
-BuildRoot: %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)
 
 # rear contains only bash scripts plus documentation so that on first glance it could be "BuildArch: noarch"
 # but actually it is not "noarch" because it only works on those architectures that are explicitly supported.