diff --git a/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/INSTALL b/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/INSTALL
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d7eb1782da..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/INSTALL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# Generate en_US.UTF-8 locale.
-#
-case "${ACTION}" in
-post)
-	LOCALE_ARCHIVEDIR=usr/lib/locale
-	LOCALE_ARCHIVE=${LOCALE_ARCHIVEDIR}/locale-archive
-
-	[ -n "$POSIXLY_CORRECT" ] && unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
-	[ -f $LOCALE_ARCHIVE ] && rm -f $LOCALE_ARCHIVE
-	[ ! -d $LOCALE_ARCHIVEDIR ] && mkdir -p $LOCALE_ARCHIVEDIR
-
-	echo "Generating GNU libc locale: en_US.UTF-8 ..."
-	localedef --prefix=. -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8
-	;;
-esac
diff --git a/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/patches b/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/patches
deleted file mode 120000
index a9ca07d03e4..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/patches
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../glibc/patches
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/template b/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/template
deleted file mode 100644
index a9c8838e4db..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'chroot-glibc'
-pkgname=chroot-glibc
-_majorver=2.18
-version=${_majorver}
-wrksrc="glibc-${version}"
-revision=2
-short_desc="The GNU C library - for xbps-src use"
-maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-homepage="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc"
-license="GPL-2, LGPL-2.1, BSD"
-distfiles="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=2cb4e1e381928f1e5e55e71ab1ba8e0ea7ede75ff9709770435bfd018ea257a3
-
-bootstrap=yes
-
-if [ "$CHROOT_READY" ]; then
-	hostmakedepends="bison perl"
-fi
-
-do_configure() {
-	[ ! -d build ] && mkdir build
-	cd build
-
-	echo "slibdir=/usr/lib" > configparms
-	echo "bindir=/usr/bin" >> configparms
-	echo "sbindir=/usr/sbin" >> configparms
-
-	# Build with -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs to avoid performance problems
-	# with Xen on x86 32bit.
-	if [ "${XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE}" = "i686" ]; then
-		export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs"
-        elif [ "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" = "armv6l" ]; then
-		# Force hard float ABI.
-		# To build for soft float: --with-float=soft --without-fp.
-		_floatabi="--with-float=hard"
-	fi
-	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-		_headers="--with-headers=$XBPS_CROSS_BASE/usr/include"
-	else
-		_headers="--with-headers=$XBPS_MASTERDIR/usr/include"
-	fi
-
-	SHELL=/bin/bash ../configure ${configure_args} \
-		--enable-add-ons=ports,nptl,libidn \
-		--enable-multi-arch --enable-obsolete-rpc \
-		--enable-bind-now --enable-kernel=2.6.27 \
-		--enable-stack-guard-randomization --disable-profile \
-		--without-cvs --without-gd --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
-		--libdir=/usr/lib --disable-build-nscd --disable-nscd \
-		${_floatabi} ${_headers}
-}
-
-do_build() {
-	cd build
-	make ${makejobs}
-}
-
-do_install() {
-	# Create DESTDIR/etc/ld.so.conf
-	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/etc
-	echo "include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf" > ${DESTDIR}/etc/ld.so.conf
-
-	cd build
-	make SHELL=/bin/bash install_root=${DESTDIR} install
-
-	# ldd is a bash script, so make it run as such.
-	. $XBPS_HELPERSDIR/replace-interpreter.sh
-	replace_interpreter bash ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/ldd
-	chmod 755 ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/ldd
-
-	# On x86_64, add dynamic linker's 32bit version to ldd.
-	if [ "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" = "x86_64" ]; then
-		rtldlist="/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2"
-		sed -i "s|^RTLDLIST.*$|RTLDLIST=\"$rtldlist\"|" ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/ldd
-		chmod 755 ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/ldd
-	fi
-
-	vmkdir etc/ld.so.conf.d
-	echo "/usr/local/lib" > ${DESTDIR}/etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr_local.conf
-	chmod 644 ${DESTDIR}/etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr_local.conf
-	rm -f ${DESTDIR}/etc/ld.so.cache
-
-	# Copy required files for en_US.UTF-8 locale, we don't need anything else.
-	mkdir -p ${wrksrc}/temp/{locale,charmaps}
-	cp ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz ${wrksrc}/temp/charmaps
-	cp ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US ${wrksrc}/temp/locale
-	cp ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB ${wrksrc}/temp/locale
-	cp ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/i18n/locales/i18n ${wrksrc}/temp/locale
-	cp ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1* ${wrksrc}/temp/locale
-	cp ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/i18n/locales/translit_* ${wrksrc}/temp/locale
-	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/usr/share
-	vmkdir usr/share/i18n/charmaps
-	vmkdir usr/share/i18n/locales
-	mv ${wrksrc}/temp/charmaps/* ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/i18n/charmaps
-	mv ${wrksrc}/temp/locale/* ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/i18n/locales
-
-	# Switch to /usr.
-	vmkdir usr/sbin
-	mv ${DESTDIR}/sbin/* ${DESTDIR}/usr/sbin
-
-	# Create ld-linux.so.3 symlink for ARM.
-	if [ "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" = "armv6l" ]; then
-		ln -sfr ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 \
-			${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/ld-linux.so.3
-	fi
-
-	# Remove unused stuff.
-	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/var
-}
-
-chroot-glibc_package() {
-	# Do not strip these files (objcopy errors out).
-	nostrip_files="
-		XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG
-		XBS5_ILP32_OFF32
-		POSIX_V6_ILP32_OFF32
-		POSIX_V6_ILP32_OFFBIG
-		POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFF32
-		POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFFBIG
-		POSIX_V6_LP64_OFF64
-		POSIX_V7_LP64_OFF64
-		XBS5_LP64_OFF64"
-	provides="glibc-${version} glibc-devel-${version}"
-	conflicts="glibc>=0 glibc-devel>=0"
-	noverifyrdeps=yes
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove all
-	}
-}