diff --git a/tools/build_release b/tools/build_release
index d20e49d..041ca99 100755
--- a/tools/build_release
+++ b/tools/build_release
@@ -19,15 +19,7 @@ for d in ['build','dist',pjoin('docs','build'),pjoin('docs','dist')]:
         remove_tree(d)
 
 # Build source and binary distros
-c('./setup.py sdist --formats=gztar')
-
-# Build version-specific RPMs, where we must use the --python option to ensure
-# that the resulting RPM is really built with the requested python version (so
-# things go to lib/python2.X/...)
-c("python2.5 ./setup.py bdist_rpm --binary-only --release=py25 "
-  "--python=/usr/bin/python2.5")
-c("python2.6 ./setup.py bdist_rpm --binary-only --release=py26 "
-  "--python=/usr/bin/python2.6")
+c('./setup.py sdist --formats=gztar,zip')
 
 # Build eggs
 c('python2.5 ./setupegg.py bdist_egg')