diff --git a/app-admin/puppet/files/puppet-fix-tests-4.x.patch b/app-admin/puppet/files/puppet-fix-tests-4.x.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 77d9cfbda60ae..0000000000000
--- a/app-admin/puppet/files/puppet-fix-tests-4.x.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- ./spec/unit/network/http/api/indirected_routes_spec.rb	2015-07-21 12:09:09.000000000 -0500
-+++ ./spec/unit/network/http/api/indirected_routes_spec.rb.new	2015-07-23 18:33:22.839914116 -0500
-@@ -144,15 +144,6 @@
-                                                                            :env))))
-       handler.uri2indirection("GET", "#{master_url_prefix}/node/bar", params)
-     end
--
--    it "should not pass through an environment to check_authorization and fail if the environment is unknown" do
--      handler.expects(:check_authorization).with(anything,
--                                                 anything,
--                                                 Not(has_entry(:environment)))
--      expect(lambda { handler.uri2indirection("GET",
--                                              "#{master_url_prefix}/node/bar",
--                                              {:environment => 'bogus'}) }).to raise_error(ArgumentError)
--    end
-   end
- 
-   describe "when converting a request into a URI" do
diff --git a/app-admin/puppet/files/puppet-openrc-status-fix.patch b/app-admin/puppet/files/puppet-openrc-status-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index af568098d594f..0000000000000
--- a/app-admin/puppet/files/puppet-openrc-status-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur puppet-3.1.1-r2.orig/lib/puppet/provider/service/openrc.rb puppet-3.1.1-r2/lib/puppet/provider/service/openrc.rb
---- all/puppet-3.1.1.orig/lib/puppet/provider/service/openrc.rb   2013-06-05 03:32:53.646824966 -0400
-+++ all/puppet-3.1.1/lib/puppet/provider/service/openrc.rb        2013-06-05 03:37:25.333824967 -0400
-@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@
-   defaultfor :operatingsystem => :gentoo
-   defaultfor :operatingsystem => :funtoo
- 
-+  has_command(:rcstatus, '/bin/rc-status') do
-+    environment :RC_SVCNAME => nil
-+  end
-   commands :rcservice => '/sbin/rc-service'
--  commands :rcstatus  => '/bin/rc-status'
-   commands :rcupdate  => '/sbin/rc-update'
- 
-   self::STATUSLINE = /^\s+(.*?)\s*\[\s*(.*)\s*\]$/