diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/user-patches/app-arch/ncompress/0001-Fix-link-creation.patch b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/user-patches/app-arch/ncompress/0001-Fix-link-creation.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b8e031ed44..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/user-patches/app-arch/ncompress/0001-Fix-link-creation.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-From 67176ea3ab5eccd004ca9cacef103d1f0636828a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Krzesimir Nowak <knowak@microsoft.com>
-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:26:24 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] "Fix" link creation
-
-It's not a proper fix as it stands, because it would try to create a
-hardlink at $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/uncompress using compress from a
-current working directory (so this may work only by chance if compress
-actually exists there), but app-arch/ncompress is also patching
-Makefile.def to use symbolic links. So those two hacks together should
-do the trick by creating a symbolic link at
-$(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/uncompress pointing to compress in the same
-directory, instead of creating a dangling symlink.
----
- Makefile.def | 4 ++--
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/Makefile.def b/Makefile.def
-index 94c9719..0fafc7a 100644
---- a/Makefile.def
-+++ b/Makefile.def
-@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ install_core:	compress
- 		mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR) $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)
- 		cp compress $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/compress
- 		rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/uncompress
--		ln $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/compress $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/uncompress
-+		ln compress $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/uncompress
- 		cp compress.1 uncompress.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/.
- 		chmod 0644 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/compress.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/uncompress.1
- 
- install_extra: install_core
- 		mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR) $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)
- 		rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/zcat
--		ln -f $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/compress $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/zcat
-+		ln -f compress $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/zcat
- 		cp zcmp zdiff zmore $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/.
- 		chmod 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/compress $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/zcmp $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/zdiff $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/zmore
- 		cp zcmp.1 zmore.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/.
--- 
-2.25.1
-
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/user-patches/app-arch/ncompress/README.md b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/user-patches/app-arch/ncompress/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e8c9c61244..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/user-patches/app-arch/ncompress/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Drop `0001-Fix-link-creation.patch` when we have ncompress 5.0-r1 or greater.
-
-See https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/29131.