diff --git a/Makefile.selinux b/Makefile.selinux
index bc159a5..0a8dae6 100644
--- a/Makefile.selinux
+++ b/Makefile.selinux
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ all: ${TARGETS:=.pp.bz2}
 
 %.pp.bz2: %.pp
 	@echo Compressing $^ -\ $@
-	bzip2 -9 $^
+	bzip2 -9 -f $^
 
 %.pp: %.te
 	make -f ${SHARE}/selinux/devel/Makefile $@
diff --git a/hyperscale-drop-bpftool-version-requirement-to-4.18.0.patch b/hyperscale-drop-bpftool-version-requirement-to-4.18.0.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 492a3bf..0000000
--- a/hyperscale-drop-bpftool-version-requirement-to-4.18.0.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-From 8d1b5fe8ee53ffd5885bee6131606d79dbbdde91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>
-Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 13:29:27 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Drop bpftool version requirement to 4.18.0
-
-The CentOS Stream 8 bpftool package has the skeleton and object
-generation features introduced in bpftool 5.6.0 and 5.13.0
-respectively backported to 4.18.0. The meson script doesn't know
-this, so we downgrade the required bpftool version to 4.18.0 to
-allow builds to pass on CentOS Stream 8.
----
- meson.build | 4 ++--
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
-index 35704947e3..6dff92bafb 100644
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ endif
- libbpf = dependency('libbpf', required : bpf_framework_required, version : libbpf_version_requirement)
- conf.set10('HAVE_LIBBPF', libbpf.found())
- 
--bpftool_strip_version_requirement = '>= 5.13.0'
-+bpftool_strip_version_requirement = '>= 4.18.0'
- if bpf_compiler == 'gcc'
-         bpftool_strip_version_requirement = '>= 7.0.0'
- endif
-@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ else
-                         bpftool = find_program('bpftool',
-                                                '/usr/sbin/bpftool',
-                                                required : bpf_framework_required,
--                                               version : '>= 5.6.0')
-+                                               version : '>= 4.18.0')
-                 endif
- 
-                 # We use `llvm-strip` as a fallback if `bpftool gen object` strip support is not available.
--- 
-2.41.0
-
diff --git a/systemd.spec b/systemd.spec
index a8a98fc..b61dcf7 100644
--- a/systemd.spec
+++ b/systemd.spec
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ Patch0001:      https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/26494.patch
 
 # Adjust upstream config to use our shared stack
 Patch0491:      fedora-use-system-auth-in-pam-systemd-user.patch
-Patch0901:      hyperscale-drop-bpftool-version-requirement-to-4.18.0.patch
 
 %ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 aarch64
 %global have_gnu_efi 1
@@ -599,8 +598,15 @@ sed -r -i '/^enable systemd-boot-update.service/d' presets/90-systemd.preset
 
 sed -r 's|/system/|/user/|g' %{SOURCE16} >10-timeout-abort.conf.user
 
-mkdir selinux
-cp %SOURCE100 %SOURCE101 %SOURCE102 %SOURCE103 selinux
+# Lower the bpftool version requirement to 4.18.0 which has all the required
+# functionality backported in C8S/C9S.
+sed -r -i.old -e 's/>= 5.13.0/>= 4.18.0/g' -e 's/>= 5.6.0/>= 4.18.0/g' meson.build
+# Make sure we don't update the timestamp of meson.build to avoid rebuilds.
+touch -r meson.build.old meson.build
+rm meson.build.old
+
+mkdir -p /tmp/selinux
+cp %SOURCE100 %SOURCE101 %SOURCE102 %SOURCE103 /tmp/selinux
 
 %if %{undefined rhel} || 0%{?rhel} > 8
 %generate_buildrequires
@@ -775,7 +781,7 @@ if ! diff -u %{SOURCE1} ${new_triggers}; then
    sleep 5
 fi
 
-cd selinux
+cd /tmp/selinux
 %{__make} -f Makefile.selinux SHARE="%{_datadir}" TARGETS="systemd_hs"
 
 %install
@@ -923,9 +929,9 @@ python3 %{SOURCE2} %buildroot "%{?rhel}" <<EOF
 EOF
 
 install -d -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/selinux/devel/include/contrib
-install -p -m 0644 selinux/systemd_hs.if %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/selinux/devel/include/contrib
+install -p -m 0644 /tmp/selinux/systemd_hs.if %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/selinux/devel/include/contrib
 install -d -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/selinux/packages
-install -p -m 0644 selinux/systemd_hs.pp.bz2 %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/selinux/packages
+install -p -m 0644 /tmp/selinux/systemd_hs.pp.bz2 %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/selinux/packages
 
 %check
 %if %{with tests}
@@ -1263,6 +1269,12 @@ fi
 
 %changelog
 
+* Thu Aug 03 2023 Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com> - 253.5-1.1
+- Replace bpftool version requirement patch with sed so it works across systemd
+  releases
+- Do selinux build in /tmp/selinux to avoid polluting source directory
+- Make sure we override existing output files when calling bzip2.
+
 * Tue Jul 18 2023 Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com> - 253.5-1.1
 - Use the %{?rhel} macro for checks instead of explicitly checking against %{?el8}.