diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile-redhat-8 b/docker/Dockerfile-redhat-8
index 0fa6008..8808568 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile-redhat-8
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile-redhat-8
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ RUN bash -c 'echo -e "PKG_SYSREQS = TRUE\nPKG_SYSREQS_VERBOSE = TRUE" > /root/.R
 
 # FIXME: switch to pak after https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/628
 # deps from pak::pkg_deps(".")$package
-RUN R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("DBI", "R6", "RPostgres", "Rcpp", "askpass", "base64enc", "bit64", "bit", "blob", "callr", "cli", "credentials", "curl", "data.table", "desc", "digest", "dplyr", "fansi", "fs", "future.apply", "future", "generics", "gert", "globals", "glue", "hms", "httr", "jsonlite", "lgr", "lifecycle", "listenv", "lubridate", "magrittr", "mime", "openssl", "parallelly", "paws.common", "paws.storage", "pillar", "pkgbuild", "pkgconfig", "processx", "progressr", "ps", "purrr", "rlang", "rstudioapi", "s3fs", "stringi", "stringr", "sys", "tibble", "tidyselect", "timechange", "utf8", "vctrs", "withr", "xml2", "zip", "codetools", "cranlike", "RSQLite", "cachem", "crayon", "debugme", "fastmap", "memoise", "progress"))'
+RUN R -q -e 'Sys.setenv("PKG_SYSREQS_PLATFORM" = "redhat-8"); pak::pak(c("DBI", "R6", "RPostgres", "Rcpp", "askpass", "base64enc", "bit64", "bit", "blob", "callr", "cli", "credentials", "curl", "data.table", "desc", "digest", "dplyr", "fansi", "fs", "future.apply", "future", "generics", "gert", "globals", "glue", "hms", "httr", "jsonlite", "lgr", "lifecycle", "listenv", "lubridate", "magrittr", "mime", "openssl", "parallelly", "paws.common", "paws.storage", "pillar", "pkgbuild", "pkgconfig", "processx", "progressr", "ps", "purrr", "rlang", "rstudioapi", "s3fs", "stringi", "stringr", "sys", "tibble", "tidyselect", "timechange", "utf8", "vctrs", "withr", "xml2", "zip", "codetools", "cranlike", "RSQLite", "cachem", "crayon", "debugme", "fastmap", "memoise", "progress"))'
 
 COPY . .
 # remove secrets from COPY
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile-redhat-9 b/docker/Dockerfile-redhat-9
index 25ce418..fc0f400 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile-redhat-9
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile-redhat-9
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /root/.R && bash -c 'echo -e "CXX_STD = CXX14\nCC=ccache gcc\nCPP=c
 # R repos
 RUN bash -c 'echo -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = ${NCPUS}, future.globals.onReference = NULL, repos = structure(c(CRAN = \"https://cloud.r-project.org\", INLA = \"https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable\")))" > /root/.Rprofile'
 
-RUN R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("DBI", "R6", "RPostgres", "Rcpp", "askpass", "base64enc", "bit64", "bit", "blob", "callr", "cli", "credentials", "curl", "data.table", "desc", "digest", "dplyr", "fansi", "fs", "future.apply", "future", "generics", "gert", "globals", "glue", "hms", "httr", "jsonlite", "lgr", "lifecycle", "listenv", "lubridate", "magrittr", "mime", "openssl", "parallelly", "paws.common", "paws.storage", "pillar", "pkgbuild", "pkgconfig", "processx", "progressr", "ps", "purrr", "rlang", "rstudioapi", "s3fs", "stringi", "stringr", "sys", "tibble", "tidyselect", "timechange", "utf8", "vctrs", "withr", "xml2", "zip", "codetools", "cranlike", "RSQLite", "cachem", "crayon", "debugme", "fastmap", "memoise", "progress"))'
+RUN R -q -e 'Sys.setenv("PKG_SYSREQS_PLATFORM" = "redhat-9"); pak::pak(c("DBI", "R6", "RPostgres", "Rcpp", "askpass", "base64enc", "bit64", "bit", "blob", "callr", "cli", "credentials", "curl", "data.table", "desc", "digest", "dplyr", "fansi", "fs", "future.apply", "future", "generics", "gert", "globals", "glue", "hms", "httr", "jsonlite", "lgr", "lifecycle", "listenv", "lubridate", "magrittr", "mime", "openssl", "parallelly", "paws.common", "paws.storage", "pillar", "pkgbuild", "pkgconfig", "processx", "progressr", "ps", "purrr", "rlang", "rstudioapi", "s3fs", "stringi", "stringr", "sys", "tibble", "tidyselect", "timechange", "utf8", "vctrs", "withr", "xml2", "zip", "codetools", "cranlike", "RSQLite", "cachem", "crayon", "debugme", "fastmap", "memoise", "progress"))'
 
 COPY . .
 # remove secrets from COPY