diff --git a/meta-openbmc-machines/meta-openpower/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/software.conf b/meta-openbmc-machines/meta-openpower/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/software.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 09ecd92..0000000
--- a/meta-openbmc-machines/meta-openpower/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/software.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# /tmp/images is the software image upload directory
-# It should not be deleted if the UBI code update is used.
-x /tmp/images
diff --git a/meta-openbmc-machines/meta-openpower/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend b/meta-openbmc-machines/meta-openpower/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
deleted file mode 100644
index e42259e..0000000
--- a/meta-openbmc-machines/meta-openpower/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-inherit obmc-phosphor-utils
-
-SRC_URI += "${@df_enabled(d, 'openpower-ubi-fs', 'file://software.conf')}"
-
-install_tmpfile() {
-        # /tmp/images is the software image upload directory.
-        # It should not be deleted since it is watched by the Image Manager for
-        # new images.
-
-        if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'openpower-ubi-fs', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
-                install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/software.conf ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/
-        fi
-}
-
-install_tmpfile_df-obmc-ubi-fs() {
-        # Don't install software.conf if obmc-ubi-fs is set since
-        # the bbappend in the meta-phosphor layer already installs
-        # if obmc-ubi-fs is set.
-
-        :
-}
-
-do_install_append() {
-        install_tmpfile
-}
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
index 539c2d9..d7cad5f 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 #TODO upstream the below patch via below issue
 #https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2016
 SRC_URI += "file://0005-dont-return-error-if-unable-to-create-network-namespace.patch"
-SRC_URI_append_df-obmc-ubi-fs = " file://software.conf"
 
 SRC_URI += "file://0001-watchdog-allow-a-device-path-to-be-specified.patch"
 SRC_URI += "file://0002-core-Add-WatchdogDevice-config-option-and-implement-.patch"
@@ -31,10 +30,3 @@
         install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/default.network ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/network/
         install -m 644 -D ${WORKDIR}/service-restart-policy.conf ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system.conf.d/service-restart-policy.conf
 }
-
-do_install_append_df-obmc-ubi-fs() {
-        # /tmp/images is the software image upload directory.
-        # It should not be deleted since it is watched by the Image Manager
-        # for new images.
-        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/software.conf ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/
-}
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager.bb b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager.bb
index 06a8006..f13805e 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager.bb
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     virtual-obmc-image-manager \
 "
 
-FILES_${PN}-version += "${sbindir}/phosphor-version-software-manager"
+FILES_${PN}-version += "${sbindir}/phosphor-version-software-manager ${exec_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/software.conf"
 FILES_${PN}-download-mgr += "${sbindir}/phosphor-download-manager"
 FILES_${PN}-updater += " \
     ${sbindir}/phosphor-image-updater \
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@
 
 SRC_URI += "file://obmc-flash-bmc"
 SRC_URI += "file://synclist"
+SRC_URI += "file://software.conf"
+
 do_install_append() {
     install -d ${D}${sbindir}
     install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/obmc-flash-bmc ${D}${sbindir}/obmc-flash-bmc
@@ -114,6 +116,15 @@
         install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}
         install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/synclist ${D}${sysconfdir}/synclist
     fi
+
+    # /tmp/images is the software image upload directory.
+    # It should not be deleted since it is watched by the Image Manager
+    # for new images.
+
+    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','true', 'false', d)}; then
+        install -d ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d
+        install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/software.conf ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/
+    fi
 }
 
 SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-bmc-code-mgmt"
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/software.conf b/meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager/software.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from meta-phosphor/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/software.conf
rename to meta-phosphor/common/recipes-phosphor/flash/phosphor-software-manager/software.conf