diff --git a/lxd.changes b/lxd.changes
index 72a1034..8b3e70b 100644
--- a/lxd.changes
+++ b/lxd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Sep 25 11:03:42 UTC 2019 - Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.com>
+
+- Clean up a few remaining specfile bits left over from the 3.17 update.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Sep 24 12:31:21 UTC 2019 - Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/lxd.spec b/lxd.spec
index b1eb187..aca9c55 100644
--- a/lxd.spec
+++ b/lxd.spec
@@ -100,24 +100,25 @@ mv -v _dist/src vendor
 # Make sure any leftover go build caches are gone.
 go clean -cache
 
-# Keep track of the current set of paths needed to generate the include-related
-# variables for later stages.
-declare -a CURRENT_DEPLIST
-
 # Set up GOPATH.
 export GOPATH="$PWD/.gopath"
 export PKGDIR="$GOPATH/src/%{import_path}"
 mkdir -p "$PKGDIR"
 cp -a * "$PKGDIR"
 
-# First we need to build the sqlite fork and dqlite. We need to build them
-# dynamically (to avoid binary bloat), but we also then need to mess with
-# patchelf to stop us from breaking openSUSE packaging.
+# Set up temporary installation paths.
+export INSTALL_ROOT="$PKGDIR/.install"
+export INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR="$INSTALL_ROOT/%{_includedir}"
+export INSTALL_LIBDIR="$INSTALL_ROOT/%{_libdir}/%{name}"
+
+# We first need to build all of the LXD-specific dependencies. To avoid binary
+# bloat, we build them as dylibs -- but we then later need to mess around with
+# the ELF headers to stop the openSUSE packaging scripts from freaking out.
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIC -DPIC"
 
-# We have a temporary-install directory which contains our pkg-configs.
-export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR="$PKGDIR/.install"
-export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR/%{_libdir}/%{name}/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR/%{_datadir}/pkgconfig"
+# We have a temporary-install directory which contains all of the dylib deps.
+export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR="$INSTALL_ROOT"
+export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$INSTALL_LIBDIR/pkgconfig"
 
 # SQLite
 pushd "$PKGDIR/_dist/deps/sqlite"
@@ -129,9 +130,7 @@ autoreconf -fiv
 	--disable-tcl
 make clean
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
-make DESTDIR="$PKGDIR/.install" install
-# Add sqlite to dependency list.
-CURRENT_DEPLIST+=("$PWD")
+make DESTDIR="$INSTALL_ROOT" install
 popd
 
 # libco
@@ -141,10 +140,8 @@ make \
 	PREFIX="" \
 	INCLUDEDIR="%{_includedir}" \
 	LIBDIR="%{_libdir}/%{name}" \
-	DESTDIR="$PKGDIR/.install" \
+	DESTDIR="$INSTALL_ROOT" \
 	all install
-# Add libco to dependency list.
-CURRENT_DEPLIST+=("$PWD")
 popd
 
 # raft
@@ -154,9 +151,7 @@ autoreconf -fiv
 	--libdir="%{_libdir}/%{name}" \
 	--disable-static
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
-make DESTDIR="$PKGDIR/.install" install
-# Add raft to dependency list.
-CURRENT_DEPLIST+=("$PWD")
+make DESTDIR="$INSTALL_ROOT" install
 popd
 
 # dqlite
@@ -168,10 +163,8 @@ autoreconf -fiv
 	--disable-static
 make clean
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
-make DESTDIR="$PKGDIR/.install" install
+make DESTDIR="$INSTALL_ROOT" install
 )
-# Add raft to dependency list.
-CURRENT_DEPLIST+=("$PWD")
 popd
 
 # Find all of the main packages using go-list.
@@ -186,11 +179,11 @@ for mainpkg in "${mainpkgs[@]}"
 do
 	binary="$(basename "$mainpkg")"
 	(
-		# We need to link against sqlite and dqlite only when dealing with lxd proper.
+		# We need to link against our dylib deps when dealing with lxd proper.
 		[ "$binary" == "lxd" ] && export \
 			BUILDTAGS="libsqlite3" \
-			CGO_CFLAGS="-I $PKGDIR/.install/%{_includedir}" \
-			CGO_LDFLAGS="-L $PKGDIR/.install/%{_libdir}/%{name}" ||:
+			CGO_CFLAGS="-I $INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR" \
+			CGO_LDFLAGS="-L $INSTALL_LIBDIR" ||:
 		go build -buildmode=pie -tags "$BUILDTAGS" -o "bin/$binary" "$mainpkg"
 	)
 done
@@ -224,27 +217,29 @@ done
 	# A simple check that lxd isn't broken. We can't do this after patchelf
 	# because we'd need to chroot(2) into {buildroot} which isn't permitted due
 	# to user namespaces being blocked inside rpmbuild. boo#1138769
-	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PKGDIR/.install/%{_libdir}/%{name}"
-	./bin/lxd help >/dev/null
+	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$INSTALL_LIBDIR"
+	./bin/lxd help
 )
 
-for lib in $PKGDIR/.install/%{_libdir}/%{name}/lib*.so
+for lib in "$INSTALL_LIBDIR"/lib*.so
 do
 	# Strip off last two version digits.
 	name="$(basename "$(readlink "$lib")" | sed -E 's/\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$//')"
 	# Give our libraries unrecognisable DT_SONAME entries.
 	patchelf --set-soname "._LXD_INTERNAL-$name" "$lib"
+	# Make sure they're executable.
+	chmod +x "$lib"
 done
 
 # Switch to absolute DT_NEEDED for all dylibs we have as well as the main LXD
 # binary. We do this for all dylibs to make sure we don't end up with weird
 # chain-loading problems.
-for target in bin/lxd $PKGDIR/.install/%{_libdir}/%{name}/lib*.so
+for target in bin/lxd "$INSTALL_LIBDIR"/lib*.so
 do
 	# Drop RPATH in case it got included during builds.
 	patchelf --remove-rpath "$target"
 	# And now replace all the possible DT_NEEDEDs to absolute paths.
-	for lib in $PKGDIR/.install/%{_libdir}/%{name}/lib*.so
+	for lib in "$INSTALL_LIBDIR"/lib*.so
 	do
 		# Strip off last two version digits.
 		name="$(basename "$(readlink "$lib")" | sed -E 's/\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$//')"
@@ -267,12 +262,11 @@ popd
 %install
 export GOPATH="$PWD/.gopath"
 export PKGDIR="$GOPATH/src/%{import_path}"
+export INSTALL_LIBDIR="$PKGDIR/.install/%{_libdir}/%{name}"
 
 install -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/%{name}
-pushd "$PKGDIR"
 # We can't use install because *.so.$n are symlinks.
-cp -avt %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/%{name}/ $PKGDIR/.install/%{_libdir}/%{name}/lib*.so.*
-popd
+cp -avt %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/%{name}/ "$INSTALL_LIBDIR"/lib*.so.*
 
 # Install all the binaries.
 pushd bin/