diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fd6d31a..a09786c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 /iproute2-6.8.0.tar.xz
 /iproute2-6.10.0.tar.xz
 /iproute2-6.12.0.tar.xz
-/iproute2-6.14.0.tar.xz
-/iproute2-6.16.0.tar.xz
-/iproute2-6.17.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/README.etc b/README.etc
deleted file mode 100644
index 6fc09c3..0000000
--- a/README.etc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-You are looking for your iproute2 config in /etc/iproute2 and it's gone?
-
-Here's an explanation on what's going on:
-
-From v6.5.0, iproute2 supports stateless configuration pattern. This
-means that iproute2 now read its config from /etc/iproute2/FOO, and,
-if it does not exist, fall back to /usr/share/iproute2/FOO.
-
-You can find iproute2 default configuration in /usr/share/iproute2,
-while you can store your user-modified config files in /etc/iproute2.
-
-/usr/share/iproute2 files are not supposed to be manually modified.
-
-If a previous update broke your user config for iproute2, you may
-have one or more ".rpmsave" files in /etc/iproute2. You can restore
-your config simply dropping the ".rpmsave" suffix from the file name.
diff --git a/iproute.spec b/iproute.spec
index 77088b9..7f7570b 100644
--- a/iproute.spec
+++ b/iproute.spec
@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
 Summary:            Advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools
 Name:               iproute
-Version:            6.17.0
+Version:            6.12.0
 Release:            %autorelease
 URL:                https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/%{name}2/
 Source0:            https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/%{name}2/%{name}2-%{version}.tar.xz
-%if 0%{?rhel}
 Source1:            rt_dsfield.deprecated
-%endif
-Source2:            README.etc
 
 License:            GPL-2.0-or-later AND NIST-PD
 BuildRequires:      bison
@@ -93,28 +90,12 @@ install -D -m644 lib/libnetlink.a %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libnetlink.a
 # drop these files, iproute-doc package extracts files directly from _builddir
 rm -rf '%{buildroot}%{_docdir}'
 
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/iproute2
-cp %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/iproute2/README
-
 # append deprecated values to rt_dsfield for compatibility reasons
 %if 0%{?rhel}
 cat %{SOURCE1} >>%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/iproute2/rt_dsfield
-cp %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/iproute2/README
-
-# RHEL-94662: restore /etc/iproute2 conf files, if modified
-# this is safe because we don't have conf files in /etc/iproute2 anymore, so
-# every *.rpmsave file over there is a leftover from a failed conf upgrade
-
-%posttrans
-if [ -f /etc/iproute2/*rpmsave ]; then
-  for conffile in /etc/iproute2/*rpmsave; do
-    mv $conffile ${conffile%.rpmsave}
-  done
-fi
 %endif
 
 %files
-%dir %{_sysconfdir}/iproute2
 %dir %{_datadir}/iproute2
 %license COPYING
 %doc README README.devel
@@ -123,10 +104,8 @@ fi
 %{_mandir}/man8/*
 %exclude %{_mandir}/man8/tc*
 %exclude %{_mandir}/man8/cbq*
-%exclude %{_mandir}/man8/arpd*
-%attr(644,root,root) %config %{_datadir}/iproute2/*
+%attr(644,root,root) %config(noreplace) %{_datadir}/iproute2/*
 %{_sbindir}/*
-%attr(644,root,root) %{_sysconfdir}/iproute2/*
 %exclude %{_sbindir}/tc
 %exclude %{_sbindir}/routel
 %{_datadir}/bash-completion/completions/devlink
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 9ad54ed..7074a5d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 SHA512 (iproute2-6.8.0.tar.xz) = 54e50340a73c8810d69bfd54704b469149731634a97d94da08b5a305592a812131a441e5b646e32b480d61840e2ade29387e54b934effeee8ded4f06e557a5c0
 SHA512 (iproute2-6.10.0.tar.xz) = 706479aa37a25fcf30c525c6abd85e0861e484d046e0636a28dbc52b958d45c9dba70b912f530dedd4b0b496e4b98969e23501bbbb41d3de50810bae014fcb41
 SHA512 (iproute2-6.12.0.tar.xz) = dbd6afb8162a6086e4be9045b8dc53aa563bd4b7abaf43ee13cd7d493730ff0b90e6985f68c6f42d64f4af6a692d0589e0cefd2f24045ec1c10418cfb73940b2
-SHA512 (iproute2-6.14.0.tar.xz) = e79049bdca0e0381f0a93a40e4d597ce59fb509dabc6e8b04a510ff9953f091c67577d6faa62967bd197bf62ab6e56d928558270a1390621431acb237b77fa46
-SHA512 (iproute2-6.16.0.tar.xz) = 88930ea1a3a901594a69dc04e533bfd1de0f5b79f176dedb45f11f01035bd680edccc8e04e56d0922ee430580581c646473a3baa941254739878f7ab946f17df
-SHA512 (iproute2-6.17.0.tar.xz) = 3d83d49233c1d984f15d285a46e2ec0eeb820c7cb84cfc84866921f37e8a57d31bc3953be07e8c79ed6079f326a25c3a85f591b0d67f9f689c0c70ccdb0fef77