diff --git a/wxPython/distrib/makerpm b/wxPython/distrib/makerpm
index 667c79fc29..d4df0c35c5 100755
--- a/wxPython/distrib/makerpm
+++ b/wxPython/distrib/makerpm
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ if [ -z "${skipcopy}" ]; then
     rm locale/*.mo
     cleanup ".#*"
     cleanup "*~"
+    cleanup "*.orig"
+    cleanup "*.rej"
     cleanup "*.pyc"
     cleanup core
     cleanup "core.[0-9]*"