diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc
index 2edcd5838bf..58c110dbe42 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc
@@ -242,7 +242,6 @@ DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-mini-x-session = "OSPDT"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-mkelfimage = "Ubuntu=mkelfimage Fedora=mkelfimage"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-mkfontdir = "Mandriva=mkfontdir Ubuntu=xfonts-utils Fedora=xorg-x11-font-utils"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-mkfontscale = "Mandriva=mkfontscale Ubuntu=xfonts-utils Fedora=xorg-x11-font-utils"
-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-mktemp = "Mandriva=mktemp Fedora=mktemp"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-mmc-utils = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-modutils-initscripts = "OE-Core"
 DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-mtd-utils = "Debian=mtd-utils Ubuntu=mtd-utils"
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 9382d23ef9e..585eac4fc74 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -492,7 +492,6 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-mkelfimage = "Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-mkfontdir = "Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-mkfontscale = "Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-mklibs-native = "Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>"
-RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-mktemp = "Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-mmc-utils = "Maxin B. John <maxin.john@intel.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-mobile-broadband-provider-info = "Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-modutils-initscripts = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-self-hosted.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-self-hosted.bb
index 28f06d9c5aa..9a6721ce031 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-self-hosted.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-self-hosted.bb
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-sdk = "\
     libstdc++-dev \
     libtool \
     make \
-    mktemp \
     perl-module-re \
     perl-module-text-wrap \
     pkgconfig \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/files/disable-strip.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/files/disable-strip.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e06869e3adf..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/files/disable-strip.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [configuration]
-
-diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
-index 37b3cc9..f1026f3 100644
---- a/Makefile.in
-+++ b/Makefile.in
-@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ install-dirs:
- 	    $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man1
- 
- install-binaries: $(PROG)
--	$(INSTALL) -m 0555 -s $(PROG) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$(PROG)
-+	$(INSTALL) -m 0555 $(PROG) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$(PROG)
- 
- install-man:
- 	$(INSTALL) -m 0444 $(srcdir)/mktemp.$(mantype) \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/files/fix-parallel-make.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/files/fix-parallel-make.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f3b6dcc34ab..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/files/fix-parallel-make.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-This fixes the parallel make install failure
-
-Upstream-Status: Accepted
-http://www.gratisoft.us/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=528
-
-Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
-
-Index: mktemp-1.7/Makefile.in
-===================================================================
---- mktemp-1.7.orig/Makefile.in
-+++ mktemp-1.7/Makefile.in
-@@ -94,10 +94,10 @@ install-dirs:
- 	$(SHELL) $(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) \
- 	    $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man1
- 
--install-binaries: $(PROG)
-+install-binaries: install-dirs $(PROG)
- 	$(INSTALL) -m 0555 $(PROG) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$(PROG)
- 
--install-man:
-+install-man: install-dirs
- 	$(INSTALL) -m 0444 $(srcdir)/mktemp.$(mantype) \
- 	    $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man1/mktemp.1
- 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/mktemp_1.7.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/mktemp_1.7.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index e8ae5c6b724..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/mktemp_1.7.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Enables safe temporary file creation from shell scripts"
-HOMEPAGE = "http://www.mktemp.org/"
-BUGTRACKER = "http://www.mktemp.org/bugs"
-SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "ISC"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=430680f6322a1eb87199b5e01a82c0d4"
-
-PR = "r3"
-
-SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.mktemp.org/pub/mktemp/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
-        file://disable-strip.patch \
-        file://fix-parallel-make.patch \
-        "
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "787bbed9fa2ee8e7645733c0e8e65172"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8e94b9e1edf866b2609545da65b627996ac5d158fda071e492bddb2f4a482675"
-
-inherit autotools update-alternatives
-
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-libc"
-
-do_install_append () {
-	if [ "${base_bindir}" != "${bindir}" ] ; then
-		install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
-		mv ${D}${bindir}/mktemp ${D}${base_bindir}/mktemp
-		rmdir ${D}${bindir}
-	fi
-}
-
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "mktemp"
-ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[mktemp] = "${base_bindir}/mktemp"
-ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "60"
-
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "mktemp.1"
-ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY_${PN}-doc = "300"
-ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[mktemp.1] = "${mandir}/man1/mktemp.1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-full-cmdline.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-full-cmdline.bb
index 92881e9f322..22b3f6782fe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-full-cmdline.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-full-cmdline.bb
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-utils = "\
     mc-fish \
     mc-helpers \
     mc-helpers-perl \
-    mktemp \
     ncurses \
     net-tools \
     popt \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-lsb.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-lsb.bb
index 53d100ce740..ef6347c7120 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-lsb.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-lsb.bb
@@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-lsb-core = "\
     make \
     man \
     man-pages \
-    mktemp \
     msmtp \
     patch \
     procps \
