diff --git a/.woodpecker/build.yaml b/.woodpecker/build.yaml
index 635499f..349e55e 100644
--- a/.woodpecker/build.yaml
+++ b/.woodpecker/build.yaml
@@ -5,18 +5,12 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 matrix:
   include:
-    # - PLATFORM: rhel-9
-    #   BLOCK: 1096:3000
-    # - PLATFORM: rhel-8
-    #   BLOCK: 1:1000
+    - PLATFORM: redhat-9
+      BLOCK: 1:1000
+    - PLATFORM: redhat-8
+      BLOCK: 1:1000
     - PLATFORM: ubuntu-2404
       BLOCK: 1:1000
-#     - PLATFORM: ubuntu-2204
-#       PLATFORM_ID: 2204
-#     - PLATFORM: ubuntu-2404
-#       PLATFORM_ID: 2404
-#     - PLATFORM: opensuse-155
-#       PLATFORM_ID: suse155
 steps:
   - name: "Build binaries (${PLATFORM}: ${BLOCK})"
     secrets: [red_hat_dev_pw, aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, pgpass, git_ro_token]
@@ -46,7 +40,7 @@ steps:
       # more complicated system dependencies which pak cannot resolve
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # set additional repos: important as otherwise some packages cannot be resolved (e.g. INLA). Also: setting our own binary repos so we can make use of them for dep installation at some point
-      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 6, future.globals.onReference = "error", repos = structure(c(getOption("repos"),INLA="https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable"))); pkgs = tools::CRAN_package_db()[[1]][${BLOCK}]; library(rBinaries); future::plan("multisession", workers = 6, rscript_startup = quote(options(crayon.enabled = TRUE))); foo = lapply(pkgs, function(x) build_binary_package(x, build_for_minor=FALSE, debug = FALSE, force = TRUE))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 6, future.globals.onReference = "error", repos = structure(c(getOption("repos"),INLA="https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable"))); pkgs = tools::CRAN_package_db()[[1]][${BLOCK}]; library(rBinaries); future::plan("multisession", workers = 6, rscript_startup = quote(options(crayon.enabled = TRUE))); foo = lapply(pkgs, function(x) build_binary_package(x, build_for_minor=FALSE, debug = FALSE, force = TRUE, platform = ${PLATFORM}))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
       ### PROD
diff --git a/R/build_binaries.R b/R/build_binaries.R
index 46601b8..7aaa514 100644
--- a/R/build_binaries.R
+++ b/R/build_binaries.R
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ build_binary_package <- function(package_name, tag = NULL, codename = NULL,
                                  r_minor_version = NULL, build_for_minor = TRUE,
                                  local_build_root = "/root",
                                  local_clone_dir = "/tmp",
-                                 platform = "redhat-9",
+                                 platform = NULL,
                                  install_system_dependencies = TRUE,
                                  debug = FALSE,
                                  force = FALSE) {