diff --git a/app/flatpak-builtins-create-usb.c b/app/flatpak-builtins-create-usb.c
index 35220d44..2de505e8 100644
--- a/app/flatpak-builtins-create-usb.c
+++ b/app/flatpak-builtins-create-usb.c
@@ -741,10 +741,6 @@ flatpak_builtin_create_usb (int argc, char **argv, GCancellable *cancellable, GE
       }
   }
 
-  /* Update the summary in the repo; otherwise ostree_create_usb() will fail */
-  if (!flatpak_dir_update_summary (dir, cancellable, error))
-    return FALSE;
-
   /* Now use code copied from `ostree create-usb` to do the actual copying. We
    * can't just call out to `ostree` because (a) flatpak doesn't have a
    * dependency on the ostree command line tools and (b) we need to only pull