diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c8044be..2a82711 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /avocado-43.0.tar.gz
 /avocado-46.0.tar.gz
+/avocado-45.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-avocado.spec b/python-avocado.spec
index 628a29c..b88f005 100644
--- a/python-avocado.spec
+++ b/python-avocado.spec
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 %global with_tests 0
 
 Name: python-%{srcname}
-Version: 46.0
-Release: 2%{?gitrel}%{?dist}
+Version: 45.0
+Release: 1%{?gitrel}%{?dist}
 Summary: Framework with tools and libraries for Automated Testing
 Group: Development/Tools
 # Found licenses:
@@ -145,46 +145,6 @@ directory. It also gives the user the ability to write a report on an
 arbitrary filesystem location.
 
 
-%package -n python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-remote
-Summary: Avocado Runner for Remote Execution
-%{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-remote}
-Requires: python2-%{srcname} == %{version}-%{release}
-Requires: fabric
-%if 0%{?fedora} == 24
-Requires: python-crypto
-%endif
-
-%description -n python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-remote
-Allows Avocado to run jobs on a remote machine, by means of an SSH
-connection. Avocado must be previously installed on the remote machine.
-
-
-%package -n python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-vm
-Summary: Avocado Runner for libvirt VM Execution
-%{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-vm}
-Requires: python2-%{srcname} == %{version}-%{release}
-Requires: python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-remote == %{version}-%{release}
-Requires: libvirt-python
-
-%description -n python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-vm
-Allows Avocado to run jobs on a libvirt based VM, by means of
-interaction with a libvirt daemon and an SSH connection to the VM
-itself. Avocado must be previously installed on the VM.
-
-
-%package -n python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-docker
-Summary: Avocado Runner for Execution on Docker Containers
-%{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-docker}
-Requires: python2-%{srcname} == %{version}-%{release}
-Requires: python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-remote == %{version}-%{release}
-Requires: python2-aexpect
-
-%description -n python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-docker
-Allows Avocado to run jobs on a Docker container by interacting with a
-Docker daemon and attaching to the container itself. Avocado must
-be previously installed on the container.
-
-
 %package -n python-%{srcname}-examples
 Summary: Avocado Test Framework Example Tests
 License: GPLv2
@@ -203,25 +163,12 @@ examples of how to write tests on your own.
 %else
 %setup -q -n %{srcname}-%{commit}
 %endif
-# package plugins-runner-vm requires libvirt-python, but the RPM
-# version of libvirt-python does not publish the egg info and this
-# causes that dep to be attempted to be installed by pip
-sed -e "s/'libvirt-python'//" -i optional_plugins/runner_vm/setup.py
 
 %build
 %{__python2} setup.py build
 pushd optional_plugins/html
 %{__python2} setup.py build
 popd
-pushd optional_plugins/runner_remote
-%{__python} setup.py build
-popd
-pushd optional_plugins/runner_vm
-%{__python} setup.py build
-popd
-pushd optional_plugins/runner_docker
-%{__python} setup.py build
-popd
 %{__make} man
 
 %install
@@ -229,15 +176,6 @@ popd
 pushd optional_plugins/html
 %{__python2} setup.py install --root %{buildroot} --skip-build
 popd
-pushd optional_plugins/runner_remote
-%{__python2} setup.py install --root %{buildroot} --skip-build
-popd
-pushd optional_plugins/runner_vm
-%{__python2} setup.py install --root %{buildroot} --skip-build
-popd
-pushd optional_plugins/runner_docker
-%{__python2} setup.py install --root %{buildroot} --skip-build
-popd
 %{__mkdir_p} %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1
 %{__install} -m 0644 man/avocado.1 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/avocado.1
 %{__install} -m 0644 man/avocado-rest-client.1 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/avocado-rest-client.1
@@ -254,15 +192,6 @@ find %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/avocado -type f -name '*.py' -exec %{__chmod} -c -x
 pushd optional_plugins/html
 %{__python2} setup.py develop --user
 popd
-pushd optional_plugins/runner_remote
-%{__python2} setup.py develop --user
-popd
-pushd optional_plugins/runner_vm
-%{__python2} setup.py develop --user
-popd
-pushd optional_plugins/runner_docker
-%{__python2} setup.py develop --user
-popd
 selftests/run
 %endif
 
@@ -306,27 +235,15 @@ selftests/run
 %{python2_sitelib}/avocado_result_html-%{version}-py%{python2_version}.egg-info
 
 
-%files -n python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-remote
-%{python2_sitelib}/avocado_runner_remote/
-%{python2_sitelib}/avocado_runner_remote-%{version}-py%{python2_version}.egg-info
-
-
-%files -n python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-vm
-%{python2_sitelib}/avocado_runner_vm/
-%{python2_sitelib}/avocado_runner_vm-%{version}-py%{python2_version}.egg-info
-
-
-%files -n python2-%{srcname}-plugins-runner-docker
-%{python2_sitelib}/avocado_runner_docker/
-%{python2_sitelib}/avocado_runner_docker-%{version}-py%{python2_version}.egg-info
-
-
 %files -n python-%{srcname}-examples
 %dir %{_docdir}/avocado
 %{_docdir}/avocado/tests
 %{_docdir}/avocado/wrappers
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 07 2017 Merlin Mathesius <mmathesi@redhat.com> - 45.0-1
+- Rollback EL6 to upstream release 45.0 due to dropped support for python 2.6.
+
 * Mon Feb 27 2017 Merlin Mathesius <mmathesi@redhat.com> - 46.0-2
 - Incorporate upstream SPEC file changes to split plugins into subpackages.
 - Remove obsolete CC-BY-SA license, which went away with the halflings font.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 2376397..0d92594 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (avocado-46.0.tar.gz) = f3e3c1109803da79e2a15e7e02d7b843f8604a592f81fd8075081e61bdd9059c2c02a1f0333479a2bb09dcc7c13b4104a3e02686d96937c69bc6c2c0d41524da
+SHA512 (avocado-45.0.tar.gz) = b224430e5fe70dc8bc4e9b04fa6c8eb7417c7915f039238b2322032fdc400f16aaedb67487e97b942894ecba966143431f99b050f6e22290fabe6c658b105a43