diff --git a/root/etc/e-smith/db/yum_repositories/migrate/25CentOSExcludes b/root/etc/e-smith/db/yum_repositories/migrate/25CentOSExcludes
deleted file mode 100644
index db1ad57..0000000
--- a/root/etc/e-smith/db/yum_repositories/migrate/25CentOSExcludes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{
-    my @add = split(/[,; ]+/, 'CENTOS_EXCLUDES');
-    my %remove = map { $_ => 1 } split(/[,; ]+/, 'CENTOS_REMOVE');
-
-    for my $name ( qw(base updates) )
-    {
-	my $repo = $DB->get($name) or next;
-
-        my @exclude = split(/,/, $repo->prop('Exclude') || '');
-        push @exclude, @add;
-        @exclude = grep(!defined $remove{$_} && !/^CENTOS_/, @exclude);
-
-        # remove duplicates
-        undef %saw;
-        @exclude = grep(!$saw{$_}++, @exclude);
-    
-        if ($#exclude >= 0)
-        {
-            $repo->set_prop('Exclude', join(',', @exclude));
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            $repo->delete('Exclude');
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/smeserver-support.spec b/smeserver-support.spec
index c4fd736..72e1f69 100644
--- a/smeserver-support.spec
+++ b/smeserver-support.spec
@@ -4,15 +4,7 @@ Summary: SME Server module to display support and licensing information
 %define name smeserver-support
 Name: %{name}
 %define version 11.0.0
-%define release 3
-
-# These packages come from CentOS, but we need to use care when
-# updating them - either we've patched them, or we need to do something
-# prior to taking the update
-
-# TODO: check mkinitrd,mdadm to see if needed
-%define centos_excludes initscripts,libgsf
-%define centos_remove   kernel,kernel-smp,kernel-xenU,mkinitrd,mdadm,openssl,samba,samba-client,samba-client-libs,samba-common,samba-common-libs,samba-common-tools,samba-libs,samba*,libsmbclient,libwbclient,libtevent,python-tevent
+%define release 4
 
 Version: %{version}
 Release: %{release}%{?dist}
@@ -96,6 +88,9 @@ Requires: mc
 Requires: psacct
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Mar 27 2024 Jean-Philippe Pialasse <jpp@koozali.org> 11.0.0-4.sme
+- removing yum_repositories related elements [SME: 12558]
+
 * Sat Mar 23 2024 Jean-Philippe Pialasse <jpp@koozali.org> 11.0.0-3.sme
 - drop dmraid support [SME: 12522]
 - drop prelink support [SME: 12523]
@@ -952,14 +947,6 @@ perl createlinks
 
 ln -s initial.cgi root/etc/e-smith/locale/en-us/etc/e-smith/web/functions/index.cgi
 find root/ -type f | xargs grep -l ____COPYYEARS____ | xargs sed -i -e 's/____COPYYEARS____/%{copykooz}/g'
-YUM_REPOS=root/etc/e-smith/db/yum_repositories/
-for dir in base updates
-do
-    mkdir -p $YUM_REPOS/defaults/$dir
-    echo %{centos_excludes} > $YUM_REPOS/defaults/$dir/Exclude
-done
-sed -i 's/CENTOS_EXCLUDES/%{centos_excludes}/' $YUM_REPOS/migrate/25CentOSExcludes
-sed -i 's/CENTOS_REMOVE/%{centos_remove}/' $YUM_REPOS/migrate/25CentOSExcludes
 
 %install
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT