diff --git a/hack/update-codegen.sh b/hack/update-codegen.sh
index 34664870306..add561e071b 100755
--- a/hack/update-codegen.sh
+++ b/hack/update-codegen.sh
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ INTERNAL_DIRS_CSV=$(IFS=',';echo "${INTERNAL_DIRS[*]// /,}";IFS=$)
 
 # This can be called with one flag, --verify-only, so it works for both the
 # update- and verify- scripts.
-${clientgen} --input-base="k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis" --input="${INTERNAL_DIRS_CSV}" "$@"
 ${clientgen} --output-base "${KUBE_ROOT}/vendor" --output-package="k8s.io/client-go" --clientset-name="kubernetes" --input-base="k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/k8s.io/api" --input="${GV_DIRS_CSV}" --go-header-file ${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/boilerplate/boilerplate.generatego.txt "$@"
 
 listergen_external_apis=(