diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 14f74e087eff..ee4cca555b95 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -79,49 +79,12 @@ rpm_prep:
 
 rpms rpm: rpm_prep rtevalrpm loadrpm
 
-rtevalrpm: rteval-$(VERSION).tar.bz2
-	cp $^ rpm/SOURCES
-	cp rteval.spec rpm/SPECS
-	rpmbuild -ba --define "_topdir $(HERE)/rpm" rpm/SPECS/rteval.spec
-
-rtevalsrpm: rteval-$(VERSION).tar.bz2
-	cp $^ rpm/SOURCES
-	cp rteval.spec rpm/SPECS
-	rpmbuild -bs --define "_topdir $(HERE)/rpm" rpm/SPECS/rteval.spec
-
-
-xmlrpcrpm: rteval-xmlrpc-$(XMLRPCVER).tar.gz
-	cp rteval-xmlrpc-$(XMLRPCVER).tar.gz rpm/SOURCES/
-	cp server/rteval-parser.spec rpm/SPECS/
-	rpmbuild -ba --define "_topdir $(HERE)/rpm" rpm/SPECS/rteval-parser.spec
-
-xmlsrpm: rteval-xmlrpc-$(XMLRPCVER).tar.gz
-	cp rteval-xmlrpc-$(XMLRPCVER).tar.gz rpm/SOURCES/
-	cp server/rteval-parser.spec rpm/SPECS/
-	rpmbuild -bs --define "_topdir $(HERE)/rpm" rpm/SPECS/rteval-parser.spec
-
-loadrpm:
-	rm -rf rpm-loads
-	mkdir -p rpm-loads/{BUILD,RPMS,SRPMS,SOURCES,SPECS}
-	cp rteval-loads.spec rpm-loads/SPECS
-	cp $(LOADS) rpm-loads/SOURCES
-	rpmbuild -ba --define "_topdir $(HERE)/rpm-loads" rpm-loads/SPECS/rteval-loads.spec
-
-rpmlint: rpms
-	@echo "==============="
-	@echo "running rpmlint"
-	rpmlint -v $(shell find ./rpm -type f -name "*.rpm") 	 \
-		$(shell find ./rpm-loads -type f -name "*.rpm")	 \
-		$(shell find ./rpm/SPECS -type f -name "rteval*.spec") \
-		$(shell find ./rpm-loads/SPECS -type f -name "rteval*.spec" )
 
 help:
 	@echo ""
 	@echo "rteval Makefile targets:"
 	@echo ""
 	@echo "        runit:     do a short testrun locally [default]"
-	@echo "        rpm:       run rpmbuild for all rpms"
-	@echo "        rpmlint:   run rpmlint against all rpms/srpms/specfiles"
 	@echo "        tarfile:   create the source tarball"
 	@echo "        install:   install rteval locally"
 	@echo "        clean:     cleanup generated files"
diff --git a/rteval.spec b/rteval.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index b5842f0d8206..000000000000
--- a/rteval.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,484 +0,0 @@
-%{!?python_sitelib: %define python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
-%{!?python_ver: %define python_ver %(%{__python} -c "import sys ; print sys.version[:3]")}
-
-Name:		rteval
-Version:	3.7
-Release:	1%{?dist}
-Summary:	Utility to evaluate system suitability for RT Linux
-
-Group:		Development/Tools
-License:	GPLv2
-URL:		http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/clrkwllms/rteval.git
-Source0:	rteval-%{version}.tar.bz2
-BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-
-BuildRequires:	python3-devel
-Requires:	platform-python
-Requires:	python3-ethtool python3-lxml
-Requires:	python3-dmidecode >= 3.10
-Requires:	rt-tests >= 0.97
-Requires:	rteval-loads >= 1.4
-Requires:	rteval-common => %{version}-%{release}
-Requires:	sysstat
-Requires:	bzip2
-Requires:       kernel-headers
-Requires:       sos
-BuildArch:	noarch
-Obsoletes:	rteval <= 1.7
-Requires:	numactl
-
-%description
-The rteval script is a utility for measuring various aspects of
-realtime behavior on a system under load. The script unpacks the
-kernel source, and then goes into a loop, running hackbench and
-compiling a kernel tree. During that loop the cyclictest program
-is run to measure event response time. After the run time completes,
-a statistical analysis of the event response times is done and printed
-to the screen.
-
-
-%package common
-Summary: Common rteval files
-BuildArch: noarch
-
-%description common
-Common files used by rteval, rteval-xmlrpc and rteval-parser
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-
-# version sanity check (make sure specfile and rteval.py match)
-cp rteval/version.py rtevalversion.py
-srcver=$(%{__python} -c "from rtevalversion import RTEVAL_VERSION; print RTEVAL_VERSION")
-rm -rf rtevalversion.py
-if [ $srcver != %{version} ]; then
-   printf "\n***\n*** rteval spec file version do not match the rteval/rteval.py version\n***\n\n"
-   exit -1
-fi
-
-%build
-%{__python} setup.py build
-
-%install
-%{__python} setup.py install --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-%files common
-%doc COPYING
-%dir %{_datadir}/%{name}
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/rtevalclient.py*
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/rtevalConfig.py*
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/rtevalXMLRPC.py*
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/version.py*
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/Log.py*
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/misc.py*
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/systopology.py*
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%if "%{python_ver}" >= "2.5"
-%{python_sitelib}/*.egg-info
-%endif
-
-%doc COPYING README doc/rteval.txt
-%{_mandir}/man8/rteval.8.gz
-%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/rteval.conf
-%{_datadir}/%{name}/rteval_*.xsl
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/__init__.py*
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/rtevalMailer.py*
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/rtevalReport.py*
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/xmlout.py*
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/modules
-%{python_sitelib}/rteval/sysinfo
-/usr/bin/rteval
-
-%changelog
-* Thu Mar 16 2017 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.14-1
-- removed leftover import of systopology from sysinfo
-
-* Wed Mar 15 2017 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.13-2
-- Updated specfile to correct version and bz [1382155]
-
-* Tue Sep 20 2016 Clark Williams <williams@rehdat.com> - 2.12-1
-- handle empty environment variables SUDO_USER and USER [1312057]
-
-* Tue Aug 30 2016 Clark Williams <williams@rehdat.com> - 2.11-1
-- make sure we return non-zero for early exit from tests
-
-* Wed Aug  3 2016 Clark Williams <williams@rehdat.com> - 2.10-1
-- bumped version for RHEL 7.3 release
-
-* Mon May  9 2016 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.9.1
-- default cpulist for modules if only one specified [1333831]
-
-* Tue Apr 26 2016 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.8.1
-- add the --version option to print the rteval version
-- made the --cyclictest-breaktrace option work properly [1209986]
-
-* Fri Apr  1 2016 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.7.1
-- treat SIGINT and SIGTERM as valid end-of-run events [1278757]
-- added cpulist options to man page
-
-* Thu Feb 11 2016 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.6.1
-- update to make --loads-cpulist and --measurement-cpulist work [1306437]
-
-* Thu Dec 10 2015 Clark Williams <williams@refhat.com> - 2.5-1
-- stop using old numactl --cpubind argument
-
-* Wed Dec  9 2015 Clark Williams <williams@refhat.com> - 2.4.2
-- added Require of package numactl
-
-* Tue Nov 17 2015 Clark Williams <williams@refhat.com> - 2.4.1
-- rework hackbench load to not generate cross-node traffic [1282826]
-
-* Wed Aug 12 2015 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.3-1
-- comment out HWLatDetect module from default config [1245699]
-
-* Wed Jun 10 2015 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.2-1
-- add --loads-cpulist and --measurement-cpulist to allow cpu placement [1230401]
-
-* Thu Apr 23 2015 Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com> - 2.1-8
-- load default configs when no config file is specified (Jiri kastner) [1212452]
-
-* Wed Jan 14 2015 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.1-7
-- added requires of bzip2 to specfile [1151567]
-
-* Thu Jan  8 2015 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.1-6
-- cleaned up product documentation [1173315]
-
-* Mon Nov 10 2014 Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com> - 2.1-5
-- rebuild for RHEL-7.1 (1151567)
-
-* Thu Mar 27 2014 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.1-4
-- cherry-picked old commit to deal with installdir problem
-
-* Wed Mar 26 2014 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 2.1-3
-- added sysstat requires to specfile
-
-* Tue Mar 12 2013 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 2.1-2
-- Migrated from libxslt-python to python-lxml
-
-* Fri Jan 18 2013 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 2.1-1
-- Made some log lines clearer
-- cyclictest: Added --cyclictest-breaktrace feature
-- cyclictest: Removed --cyclictest-distance option
-- cyclictest: Use a tempfile buffer for cyclictest's stdout data
-- cyclictest: Report if breaktrace was triggered
-- cyclictest: Make the unit test work again
-- cyclictest: Only log and show statistic data when samples are collected
-- Copyright updates
-
-* Thu Jan 17 2013 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 2.0.1-1
-- Fix up type casting in the core module code
-- hwlatdetect: Add some more useful debug info
-- Reworked the run logic for modules - allow them to flag they won't run
-- Fixed a few log messages in load modules
-- Add a 30 seconds sleep before unleashing the measurement threads
-
-* Thu Jan 10 2013 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 2.0-3
-- Separate out RTEVAL_VERSION into rteval.version, to avoid
-  massive BuildRequirements
-
-* Fri Dec 21 2012 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 2.0-2
-- Split out common files into rteval-common
-
-* Fri Dec 21 2012 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 2.0-1
-- Updated to rteval v2.0 and reworked spec file to use setup.py directly
-
-* Tue Oct 23 2012 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.36-1
-- deal with system not having dmidecode python module
-- make sure to cast priority parameter to int
-- from Raphaël Beamonte <raphael.beamonte@gmail.com>:
-  - Rewrite of the get_kthreads method to make it cross-distribution
-  - Adds getcmdpath method to use which to locate the used commands
-  - Rewrite of the get_services method to make it cross-distribution
-
-* Mon Apr  2 2012 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.35-1
-- fix thinko where SIGINT and SIGTERM handlers were commented out
-
-* Thu Jan 12 2012 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.34-1
-- fix missing config merge in rteval.py to pass parameters
-  down to cyclictest
-- modify hackbench to use helper function to start process
-
-* Sat May 14 2011 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.33-1
-- modify hackbench cutoff to be 0.75GB/core
-
-* Mon Aug 23 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.32-1
-- update docs
-- refactor some RTEval methods to utility functions
-- modify hackbench.py not to run under low memory conditions
-- clean up XML generation to deal with new hackbench code
-- clean up XSL code to deal with new XML 'run' attribute
-- from David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>:
-  - improve CPU socket counting logic
-  - delay log directory creation until actually needed
-- from Gowrishankar <gowrishankar.m@in.ibm.com>:
-  - check if the core id really exists (multithreading fix)
-
-* Mon Jul 26 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.31-1
-- from David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>:
-  - Updated hackbench implementation to avoid overusing resources
-  - Don't show NUMA node information if it's missing in the summary.xml
-  - Show CPU cores properly
-
-* Wed Jul 21 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.30-1
-- added code to hackbench to try to detect and ease memory pressure
-
-* Fri Jul 16 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.29-1
-- fixed incorrect type value in kcompile.py
-
-* Fri Jul 16 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.28-1
-- added logic to loads to adjust number of jobs based on ratio
-  of memory per core
-
-* Wed Jul 14 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.27-1
-- modified hackbench to go back to using threads rather than
-  processes for units of work
-- added memory size, number of numa nodes and run duration to the
-  parameter dictionary passed to all loads and cyclictest
-
-* Tue Jul 13 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.26-1
-- modified hackbench parameters to reduce memory consumption
-
-* Mon Jul 12 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.25-1
-- fixed cyclictest bug that caused everything to be uniprocessor
-- updated source copyrights to 2010
-
-* Fri Jul  9 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.24-1
-- modified hackbench arguments and added new parameters for
-  hackbench in rteval.conf
-
-* Thu Jul  8 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.23-1
-- version bump to deal with out-of-sync cvs issue
-
-* Thu Jul  8 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.22-1
-- merged David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> changes to use
-  hackbench from rt-tests packages rather than carry local copy
-- converted all loads and cyclictest to pass __init__ parameters
-  in a dictionary rather than as discrete parameters
-- added logging for load output
-
-* Tue Apr 13 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.21-1
-- from Luis Claudio Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>:
-  - remove unecessary wait() call in cyclictest.py
-  - close /dev/null after using it
-  - call subprocess.wait() when needed
-  - remove delayloop code in hackbench.py
-- from David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>:
-  - add SIGINT handler
-  - handle non-root user case
-  - process DMI warnings before command line arguments
-  - added --annotate feature to rteval
-  - updates to xmlrpc code
-
-* Tue Apr  6 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.20-1
-- code fixes from Luis Claudio Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
-- from David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>:
-  - xmlrpc server updates
-  - cputopology.py for recording topology in xml
-  - added NUMA node recording for run data
-  - rpmlint fixes
-- added start of rteval whitepaper in docs dir
-
-* Tue Mar 16 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.19-1
-- add ability for --summarize to read tarfiles
-- from David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
-  - gather info about loaded kernel modules for XML file
-  - added child tracking to hackbench to prevent zombies
-
-* Tue Feb 16 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.18-1
-- fix usage of python 2.6 features on RHEL5 (python 2.4)
-
-* Tue Feb 16 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.17-1
-- added logic to filter non-printables from service status output
-  so that we have legal XML output
-- added logic to hackbench.py to cleanup properly at the end
-  of the test
-
-* Thu Feb 11 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.16-1
-- fix errors in show_remaining_time() introduced because
-  time values are floats rather than ints
-
-* Thu Feb 11 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.15-1
-- added logic to use --numa and --smp options of new cyclictest
-- added countdown report for time remaining in a run
-
-* Tue Feb  9 2010 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.14-1
-- David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>:
-  merged  XMLReport() changes for hwcert suite
-
-* Tue Dec 22 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.13-1
-- added cyclictest default initializers
-- added sanity checks to statistics reduction code
-- updated release checklist to include origin push
-- updated Makefile clean and help targets
-- davids updates (mainly for v7 integration):
-  - Add explicit sys.path directory to the python sitelib+
-    '/rteval'
-  - Send program arguments via RtEval() constructor
-  - Added more DMI data into the summary.xml report
-  - Fixed issue with not including all devices in the
-    OnBoardDeviceInfo tag
-
-* Thu Dec  3 2009 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 1.12-2
-- fixed Makefile and specfile to include and install the
-  rteval/rteval_histogram_raw.py source file for gaining
-  raw access to histogram data
-- Removed xmlrpc package during merge against master_ipv4 branch
-
-* Wed Nov 25 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.12-1
-- fix incorrect reporting of measurement thread priorities
-
-* Mon Nov 16 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.11-5
-- ensure that no double-slashes ("//") appear in the symlink
-  path for /usr/bin/rteval (problem with rpmdiff)
-
-* Tue Nov 10 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.11-4
-- changed symlink back to install and tracked by %%files
-
-* Mon Nov  9 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.11-3
-- changed symlink generation from %%post to %%posttrans
-
-* Mon Nov  9 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.11-2
-- fixed incorrect dependency for libxslt
-
-* Fri Nov  6 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.11-1
-- added base OS info to XML file and XSL report
-- created new package rteval-loads for the load source code
-
-* Wed Nov  4 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.10-1
-- added config file section for cyclictest and two settable
-  parameters, buckets and interval
-
-* Thu Oct 29 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.9-1
-- merged davids updates:
-	-H option (raw histogram data)
-	cleaned up xsl files
-	fixed cpu sorting
-
-* Mon Oct 26 2009 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 1.8-3
-- Fixed rpmlint complaints
-
-* Mon Oct 26 2009 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 1.8-2
-- Added xmlrpc package, containing the XML-RPC mod_python modules
-
-* Tue Oct 20 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.8-1
-- split kcompile and hackbench into sub-packages
-- reworked Makefile (and specfile) install/uninstall logic
-- fixed sysreport incorrect plugin option
-- catch failure when running on root-squashed NFS
-
-* Tue Oct 13 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.7-1
-- added kthread status to xml file
-- merged davids changes for option processing and additions
-  to xml summary
-
-* Tue Oct 13 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.6-1
-- changed stat calculation to loop less
-- added methods to grab service and kthread status
-
-* Mon Oct 12 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.5-1
-- changed cyclictest to use less memory when doing statisics
-  calculations
-- updated debug output to use module name prefixes
-- changed option processing to only process config file once
-
-* Fri Oct  9 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.4-1
-- changed cyclictest to use histogram rather than sample array
-- calcuated statistics directly from histogram
-- changed sample interval to 100us
-- added -a (affinity) argument to force cpu affinity for
-  measurement threads
-
-* Thu Sep 24 2009 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 1.3-3
-- Cleaned up the spec file and made rpmlint happy
-
-* Wed Sep 23 2009 David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> - 1.3-2
-- Removed version number from /usr/share/rteval path
-
-* Tue Sep 22 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.3-1
-- changes from davids:
-  * changed report code to sort by processor id
-  * added report submission retry logic
-  * added emailer class
-
-* Fri Sep 18 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.2-1
-- added config file handling for modifying load behavior and
-  setting defaults
-- added units in report per IBM request
-
-* Wed Aug 26 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.1-2
-- missed a version change in rteval/rteval.py
-
-* Wed Aug 26 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.1-1
-- modified cyclictest.py to start cyclictest threads with a
-  'distance' of zero, meaning they all have the same measurement
-  interval
-
-* Tue Aug 25 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 1.0-1
-- merged davids XMLRPC fixes
-- fixed --workdir option
-- verion bump to 1.0
-
-* Thu Aug 13 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 0.9-2
-- fixed problem with incorrect version in rteval.py
-
-* Tue Aug  4 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 0.9-1
-- merged dsommers XMLRPC and database changes
-- Specify minimum python-dmidecode version, which got native XML support
-- Added rteval_dmi.xsl
-- Fixed permission issues in /usr/share/rteval-x.xx
-
-* Wed Jul 22 2009 Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> - 0.8-1
-- added code to capture clocksource info
-- added code to copy dmesg info to report directory
-- added code to display clocksource info in report
-- added --summarize option to display summary of existing report
-- added helpfile target to Makefile
-
-* Thu Mar 26 2009 Clark Williams <williams@torg> - 0.7-1
-- added require for python-schedutils to specfile
-- added default for cyclictest output file
-- added help parameter to option parser data
-- renamed xml output file to summary.xml
-- added routine to create tarfile of result files
-
-* Wed Mar 18 2009 Clark Williams <williams@torg> - 0.6-6
-- added code to handle binary data coming from DMI tables
-
-* Wed Mar 18 2009 Clark Williams <williams@torg> - 0.6-5
-- fixed logic for locating XSL template (williams)
-- fixed another stupid typo in specfile (williams)
-
-* Wed Mar 18 2009 Clark Williams <williams@torg> - 0.6-4
-- fixed specfile to install rteval_text.xsl in /usr/share directory
-
-* Wed Mar 18 2009 Clark Williams <williams@torg> - 0.6-3
-- added Requires for libxslt-python (williams)
-- fixed race condition in xmlout constructor/destructor (williams)
-
-* Wed Mar 18 2009 Clark Williams <williams@torg> - 0.6-2
-- added Requires for libxslt (williams)
-- fixed stupid typo in rteval/rteval.py (williams)
-
-* Wed Mar 18 2009 Clark Williams <williams@torg> - 0.6-1
-- added xml output logic (williams, dsommers)
-- added xlst template for report generator (dsommers)
-- added dmi/smbios output to report (williams)
-- added __del__ method to hackbench to cleanup after run (williams)
-- modified to always keep run data (williams)
-
-* Fri Feb 20 2009 Clark Williams <williams@torg> - 0.5-1
-- fixed tab/space mix problem
-- added report path line to report
-
-* Fri Feb 20 2009 Clark Williams <williams@torg> - 0.4-1
-- reworked report output
-- handle keyboard interrupt better
-- removed duration mismatch between rteval and cyclictest
-
-* Mon Feb  2 2009 Clark Williams <williams@torg> - 0.3-1
-- initial checkin
