diff --git a/core/rosbuild/bin/rostar b/core/rosbuild/bin/rostar
deleted file mode 100755
index 624bf779..00000000
--- a/core/rosbuild/bin/rostar
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-"""
-usage: %(progname)s [package] <ball.tar>
-
-Builds a self contained tar file of a ROS package and all of its dependencies.
-"""
-
-
-import os, sys, string, time, getopt
-
-import subprocess
-
-_DEBUG = False
-
-def _buildTarInTemp(pkg, tarball, tmpdir):
-  os.mkdir(os.path.join(tmpdir, 'work'))
-  os.symlink(os.path.join(tmpdir, 'work'), os.path.join(tmpdir, pkg))
-
-  pkgstr = subprocess.Popen(["rospack", "deps", pkg], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].strip()
-  pkgs = pkgstr.split()
-  pkgs.extend([pkg, 'rospack', 'rosbash', 'gtest'])
-  lddirs=set()
-  for p in pkgs:
-    d = subprocess.Popen(["rospack", "find", p], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].strip()
-    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(tmpdir, 'work', p)):
-      if _DEBUG: print "Linking %s to %s/work/%s" % (d,tmpdir,p)
-      os.symlink(d, os.path.join(tmpdir, 'work', p))
-    else:
-      print "Skipping %s (duplicate)" % (p)
-    l = subprocess.Popen(["rospack", "libs-only-L", p], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].strip()
-    for dir in l.split():
-      if dir[0:len(d)] == d:
-        newdir = os.path.join(p,dir[len(d):])
-        lddirs.add(newdir)
-
-  ldstr = "export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="
-  for dir in lddirs:
-    ldstr += '`pwd`/%s:' % (dir)
-  ldstr += '$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH'
-
-  if _DEBUG: print ldstr
-
-  os.symlink(os.path.join(os.getenv('ROS_ROOT'),'bin'), os.path.join(tmpdir, 'work', 'bin'))
-
-  f = open(os.path.join(tmpdir, 'work', 'sourceme.sh'), 'w+')
-  f.write('''export ROS_ROOT=`pwd`
-  export PATH=$ROS_ROOT/bin:$PATH
-  unset ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
-  source `rospack find rosbash`/rosbash
-  #TODO: export PYTHONPATH
-  %s
-  ''' % (ldstr))
-  f.close()
-  os.chmod(os.path.join(tmpdir, 'work', 'sourceme.sh'), 0755)
-
-  _path, tarballfn = os.path.split(tarball)
-
-  os.chdir(tmpdir)
-  cmd = 'tar -chzf %(tarball)s --exclude "*/.svn" --exclude "*/.backup-*" --exclude "*.o" --exclude "*/%(tarballfn)s" %(pkg)s' % locals()
-  if _DEBUG: print cmd
-  os.system(cmd)
-
-
-
-def buildTarFile(pkg, tarball):
-  cwd = os.getcwd()
-  tarball = os.path.join(cwd, tarball)
-  
-  print "Packing %(pkg)s and its dependencies into %(tarball)s..." % locals()
-
-  tmpdir = os.path.join(os.sep, 'tmp', 'rostar-%s' % (os.getpid()))
-  if os.path.exists(tmpdir):
-    os.system('rm -rf %s' % (tmpdir))
-  os.mkdir(tmpdir)
-
-  if os.path.exists(tarball): os.remove(tarball)
-
-  try:
-    _buildTarInTemp(pkg, tarball, tmpdir)
-  finally:
-    os.system('rm -rf %s' % (tmpdir))
-
-
-def test():
-  pass
-
-def usage(progname):
-  print __doc__ % vars()
-
-def main(argv, stdout, environ):
-  path, progname = os.path.split(argv[0])
-  optlist, args = getopt.getopt(argv[1:], "", ["help", "test", "debug"])
-
-  testflag = 0
-  if len(args) not in (1,2):
-    usage(progname)
-    return
-  for (field, val) in optlist:
-    if field == "--help":
-      usage(progname)
-      return
-    elif field == "--debug":
-      _DEBUG = True
-    elif field == "--test":
-      testflag = 1
-
-  if testflag:
-    test()
-    return
-
-  if len(args) == 1:
-    # If no args given, check whether we're sitting in a package, and if so,
-    # build it
-    if os.path.exists('manifest.xml'):
-      pkg=os.path.basename(os.getcwd())
-    else:
-      usage(progname)
-      sys.exit(-1)
-    tarball = args[0]
-  elif len(args) == 2:
-    pkg = args[0]
-    tarball = args[1]
-
-  buildTarFile(pkg, tarball)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-  main(sys.argv, sys.stdout, os.environ)