diff --git a/.woodpecker/build.yaml b/.woodpecker/build.yaml
index f1ecc93..c510919 100644
--- a/.woodpecker/build.yaml
+++ b/.woodpecker/build.yaml
@@ -22,9 +22,8 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
     commands:
       # download latest package version (avoid having to rebuild image every time)
-      # - git config credential.helper '!f() { sleep 1; echo "username=$${GIT_USER}"; echo "password=$${GIT_RO_TOKEN}"; }; f'
       - git clone https://pat-s:$$git_ro_token@git.devxy.io/devxy/arm64-r-binaries.git && cd arm64-r-binaries
-      - R CMD INSTALL . > /dev/null
+      - R -q -e 'install.packages(".", repos = NULL, quiet = TRUE)'
       - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 2); pkgs = tools::CRAN_package_db()[[1]][1:2]; library(rBinaries); future::plan("sequential", workers = 2); lapply(pkgs, function(x) build_binary_package(x, build_for_minor=FALSE, debug = FALSE, force = TRUE))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
diff --git a/R/upload.R b/R/upload.R
index 0060cbc..86859cd 100644
--- a/R/upload.R
+++ b/R/upload.R
@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@ upload_single_binary_to_s3 <- function(
   s3fs::s3_file_system(
     aws_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"),
     aws_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"),
-    endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com",
-    region_name = "eu-central-003",
+    endpoint = endpoint,
+    region_name = region,
   )
 
   tarball_name <- sprintf("%s_%s.tar.gz", package_name, tag)
   exists <- s3fs::s3_file_exists(sprintf("%s/%s", remote_bin_path, tarball_name))
 
-  if (!exists && !force) {
+  if ((!exists && !force) || (!exists && force)) {
     cli::cli_alert_info("{.fun build_single_tag}: 5. Uploading {.pkg {package_name}} {.field {tag}} to S3.")
     s3fs::s3_file_upload(
       sprintf("%s/%s", local_bin_path, tarball_name),