diff --git a/srcpkgs/rpmextract/files/rpm2cpio b/srcpkgs/rpmextract/files/rpm2cpio
deleted file mode 100755
index a0eba24032b..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/rpmextract/files/rpm2cpio
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-pkg=$1
-if [ "$pkg" = "" -o ! -e "$pkg" ]; then
-  echo "no package supplied" 1>&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-leadsize=96
-o=`expr $leadsize + 8`
-set `od -j $o -N 8 -t u1 $pkg`
-il=`expr 256 \* \( 256 \* \( 256 \* $2 + $3 \) + $4 \) + $5`
-dl=`expr 256 \* \( 256 \* \( 256 \* $6 + $7 \) + $8 \) + $9`
-# echo "sig il: $il dl: $dl"
-
-sigsize=`expr 8 + 16 \* $il + $dl`
-o=`expr $o + $sigsize + \( 8 - \( $sigsize \% 8 \) \) \% 8 + 8`
-set `od -j $o -N 8 -t u1 $pkg`
-il=`expr 256 \* \( 256 \* \( 256 \* $2 + $3 \) + $4 \) + $5`
-dl=`expr 256 \* \( 256 \* \( 256 \* $6 + $7 \) + $8 \) + $9`
-# echo "hdr il: $il dl: $dl"
-
-hdrsize=`expr 8 + 16 \* $il + $dl`
-o=`expr $o + $hdrsize`
-
-dd if=$pkg ibs=$o skip=1 2>/dev/null
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rpmextract/files/rpmextract b/srcpkgs/rpmextract/files/rpmextract
index 47ad01dfe1e..c42ce466dbc 100755
--- a/srcpkgs/rpmextract/files/rpmextract
+++ b/srcpkgs/rpmextract/files/rpmextract
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-if [ "$1" = "" -o ! -e "$1" ]; then
-    echo "no package supplied" 1>&2
-   exit 1
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+	echo "no package supplied" >&2
+	exit 1
+elif [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
+	echo "'$1': not found" >&2
+	exit 1
 fi
-rpm2cpio $1 | bsdtar -xf -
+rpm2cpio "$1" | bsdtar -xf -
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rpmextract/template b/srcpkgs/rpmextract/template
index 3a3cc432863..74c334afe31 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rpmextract/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rpmextract/template
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'rpmextract'
 pkgname=rpmextract
-version=1.1
-revision=4
-depends="bsdtar coreutils"
-short_desc="Script to convert or extract RPM archives (contains rpm2cpio)"
+version=1.2
+revision=1
+depends="bsdtar rpm>=4.17.1_3"
+short_desc="Script to convert or extract RPM archives"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
-license="GPL-1.0-or-later"
-homepage="http://www.archlinux.org"
+license="BSD-2-Clause"
+homepage="http://www.voidlinux.org"
 
 do_install() {
-	vbin ${FILESDIR}/rpm2cpio
 	vbin ${FILESDIR}/rpmextract
 }