diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/freeipa/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/freeipa/default.nix
index 3a7edb9abbb9..e967f01fd6be 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/freeipa/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/freeipa/default.nix
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@
 }:
 
 let
-  pathsPy = ./paths.py;
-
   pythonInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
     distutils
     six
@@ -129,17 +127,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   postPatch = ''
     patchShebangs makeapi makeaci install/ui/util
 
-    substituteInPlace ipaplatform/setup.py \
-      --replace 'ipaplatform.debian' 'ipaplatform.nixos'
-
     substituteInPlace ipasetup.py.in \
       --replace 'int(v)' 'int(v.replace("post", ""))'
 
     substituteInPlace client/ipa-join.c \
       --replace /usr/sbin/ipa-getkeytab $out/bin/ipa-getkeytab
 
-    cp -r ipaplatform/{fedora,nixos}
-    substitute ${pathsPy} ipaplatform/nixos/paths.py \
+    substituteInPlace ipaplatform/nixos/paths.py \
       --subst-var out \
       --subst-var-by bind ${bind.dnsutils} \
       --subst-var-by curl ${curl} \
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/freeipa/paths.py b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/freeipa/paths.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 36c0cc0c7403..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/freeipa/paths.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-from ipaplatform.fedora.paths import FedoraPathNamespace
-
-class NixOSPathNamespace(FedoraPathNamespace):
-    SBIN_IPA_JOIN = "@out@/bin/ipa-join"
-    IPA_GETCERT = "@out@/bin/ipa-getcert"
-    IPA_RMKEYTAB = "@out@/bin/ipa-rmkeytab"
-    IPA_GETKEYTAB = "@out@/bin/ipa-getkeytab"
-    NSUPDATE = "@bind@/bin/nsupdate"
-    BIN_CURL = "@curl@/bin/curl"
-    KINIT = "@kerberos@/bin/kinit"
-    KDESTROY = "@kerberos@/bin/kdestroy"
-
-paths = NixOSPathNamespace()