diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index 28a023e01..63df4eb25 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -483,9 +483,6 @@ post_to_2.4.80() {
 }
 
 repo_sync() {
-  # Making sure reposync is the latest
-  cp $UPDATE_DIR/salt/manager/tools/sbin/so-repo-sync /usr/sbin
-  chmod +x /usr/sbin/so-repo-sync
   echo "Sync the local repo."
   su socore -c '/usr/sbin/so-repo-sync' || fail "Unable to complete so-repo-sync."
 }