diff --git a/.crow/build-all-versions-arm64.yaml b/.crow/build-all-versions-arm64.yaml
index afa6e89..37992df 100644
--- a/.crow/build-all-versions-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/build-all-versions-arm64.yaml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # OS (alpine)
 # OS_VERSION (3.22)
 # R_VERSION (4.5.3)
-# echo "c('RInno','KeyboardSimulator','R2PPT','RWinEdt','blatr','excel.link','spectrino','taskscheduleR','MDSGUI','BiplotGUI','R2wd','rFUSION','MediaNews','doBy','IDPmisc','frailtypack','afex','FrF2','DoE.base','agricolae','doFuture','fscaret','PHYLOGR','seewave','pls','relaimpo','geepack','gggenes','NPCirc','repmis','PNDSIBGE','lidR','poismf','neonstore','MachineShop','mvst','MacBehaviour','mcmcderive','RGIFT','KnowBR','netmeta','spdep','sf','Rfast','compareGroups','ff','GsymPoint','RcppDynProg','comtradr','RcppDynProg','FD','PearsonDS','DCluster','gRc','mixlm','geospt','fdth','ffmanova','fiery','ffscrapr','cold','fiery','RcmdrPlugin.DoE','RcmdrPlugin.NMBU')" | base64
-# crow pipeline create --var ARCH=arm64 --var OS=alpine --var OS_VERSION=3.22 --var R_VERSION=4.5 --var task=build-all-arm64 --var K8S_INSTANCE_TYPE=cax41 --branch=main --var SKIP_PKGS=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 --log-level=info 7
+# Skip list lives in local/excluded-packages.json (read by local/build-all.R).
+# crow pipeline create --var ARCH=arm64 --var OS=alpine --var OS_VERSION=3.22 --var R_VERSION=4.5 --var task=build-all-arm64 --var K8S_INSTANCE_TYPE=cax41 --branch=main --log-level=info 7
 # crow pipeline create --var ARCH=arm64 --var OS=alpine --var OS_VERSION=3.23 --var R_VERSION=4.5 --var task=build-all-arm64 --var K8S_INSTANCE_TYPE=cax41 --branch=main --log-level=info 5
 # crow pipeline create --var ARCH=arm64 --var OS=redhat --var OS_VERSION=10 --var R_VERSION=4.5.3 --var task=build-all-arm64 --branch=main --log-level=info 5
 when:
diff --git a/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-amd64.yaml b/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-amd64.yaml
index d5729be..4d50ddf 100644
--- a/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-amd64.yaml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ steps:
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - git clone -q https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git /tmp/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/$R_VERSION/bin/R -q -e 'pak::sysreqs_db_update(); pak::local_install("/tmp/bincraft"); pak::pak(c("RPostgres", "s3fs", "data.table", "future")); packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - /opt/R/$R_VERSION/bin/R -q -e 'pak::sysreqs_db_update(); pak::local_install("/tmp/bincraft"); pak::pak(c("RPostgres", "s3fs", "data.table", "future", "jsonlite")); packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - /opt/R/$R_VERSION/bin/R -q -e "source('local/packages-to-build.R'); saveRDS(pkgs, '/mnt/cache/packages/pkgs_to_build.rds'); sprintf('Precomputed %s package versions to build', nrow(pkgs))"
     backend_options:
       docker:
diff --git a/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-arm64.yaml b/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-arm64.yaml
index 1242172..2b3b881 100644
--- a/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-arm64.yaml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ steps:
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - git clone -q https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git /tmp/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/$R_VERSION/bin/R -q -e 'pak::sysreqs_db_update(); pak::local_install("/tmp/bincraft"); pak::pak(c("RPostgres", "s3fs", "data.table", "future")); packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - /opt/R/$R_VERSION/bin/R -q -e 'pak::sysreqs_db_update(); pak::local_install("/tmp/bincraft"); pak::pak(c("RPostgres", "s3fs", "data.table", "future", "jsonlite")); packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - /opt/R/$R_VERSION/bin/R -q -e "source('local/packages-to-build.R'); saveRDS(pkgs, '/mnt/cache/packages/pkgs_to_build.rds'); sprintf('Precomputed %s package versions to build', nrow(pkgs))"
     backend_options:
       docker:
diff --git a/local/build-all.R b/local/build-all.R
index 651a0c7..102d18c 100644
--- a/local/build-all.R
+++ b/local/build-all.R
@@ -21,23 +21,8 @@ chunks <- split(pkgs, cut(seq_len(nrow(pkgs)), split_into, labels = FALSE))
 chunk <- chunks[[split_index]]
 sprintf("# of package versions for this job: %s", nrow(chunk))
 
-# Exclude known problematic packages
-exclude <- c(
-  "RInno", "KeyboardSimulator", "R2PPT", "RWinEdt", "blatr", "excel.link",
-  "spectrino", "taskscheduleR", "MDSGUI", "BiplotGUI", "R2wd", "rFUSION",
-  "MediaNews", "doBy", "IDPmisc", "frailtypack", "afex", "FrF2", "DoE.base",
-  "agricolae", "doFuture", "fscaret", "PHYLOGR", "seewave", "pls", "relaimpo",
-  "geepack", "gggenes", "NPCirc", "repmis", "PNDSIBGE", "lidR", "poismf",
-  "neonstore", "MachineShop", "mvst", "MacBehaviour", "mcmcderive", "RGIFT",
-  "KnowBR", "netmeta", "spdep", "Rfast", "compareGroups", "ff", "GsymPoint",
-  "RcppDynProg", "comtradr", "FD", "PearsonDS", "DCluster", "gRc", "mixlm",
-  "geospt", "fdth", "ffmanova", "fiery", "ffscrapr", "cold",
-  "RcmdrPlugin.DoE", "RcmdrPlugin.NMBU", "RcmdrPlugin.RiskDemo",
-  "RcmdrPlugin.ROC", "RcmdrPlugin.TeachStat", "RcmdrPlugin.TeachingDemos",
-  "RcmdrPlugin.UCA", "RcmdrPlugin.WorldFlora", "RcmdrPlugin.aRnova",
-  "RcmdrPlugin.depthTools", "RcmdrPlugin.orloca", "RcmdrPlugin.sos",
-  "RcmdrPlugin.survival", "RcmdrPlugin.temis", "GWlasso", "GWmodelVis"
-)
+# Exclude known problematic packages (single source of truth)
+exclude <- jsonlite::fromJSON("local/excluded-packages.json")[["package"]]
 chunk <- chunk[!chunk$Package %in% exclude, ]
 
 # Read pre-computed S3 listing from install-deps step
diff --git a/local/excluded-packages.json b/local/excluded-packages.json
index 4bfa2de..dccfc0b 100644
--- a/local/excluded-packages.json
+++ b/local/excluded-packages.json
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
   {"package": "RcmdrPlugin.DoE", "reason": "hang"},
   {"package": "RcmdrPlugin.NMBU", "reason": "hang"},
   {"package": "RcmdrPlugin.RiskDemo", "reason": "hang"},
+  {"package": "RcmdrPlugin.ROC", "reason": "hang"},
   {"package": "RcmdrPlugin.TeachStat", "reason": "hang"},
   {"package": "RcmdrPlugin.TeachingDemos", "reason": "hang"},
   {"package": "RcmdrPlugin.UCA", "reason": "hang"},