diff --git a/t/genesis_openembedded_consumer.t b/t/genesis_openembedded_consumer.t
index 0ba74d6..0bf87ef 100644
--- a/t/genesis_openembedded_consumer.t
+++ b/t/genesis_openembedded_consumer.t
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ sub test_rpm_consumer {
     write_file("$deploy_repo/xCAT-genesis-openembedded-stale.noarch.rpm", 'stale');
 
     my $dependencies = "$tmp/rpm-dependencies";
-    make_path($dependencies);
+    my $scratch_repo_root = "$tmp/rpm-repo-root";
+    make_path($dependencies, $scratch_repo_root);
     for my $name (qw(
       ipmitool-xcat syslinux-xcat grub2-xcat xnba-undi
       perl-IO-Stty perl-HTTP-Async perl-Net-HTTPS-NB
@@ -123,7 +124,7 @@ sub test_rpm_consumer {
     my $status = run_capture(
         $log,
         $^X, $rpm_consumer,
-        '--repo-root', $repo_root,
+        '--repo-root', $scratch_repo_root,
         '--output', $output,
         '--target', $target,
         '--run-id', 'consumer',
diff --git a/t/genesis_openembedded_release.t b/t/genesis_openembedded_release.t
index c5dce52..3db6644 100644
--- a/t/genesis_openembedded_release.t
+++ b/t/genesis_openembedded_release.t
@@ -303,8 +303,7 @@ sub exercise_packager {
             'RPM uses the OpenEmbedded staging namespace');
         is(run_capture($contents_log, 'rpm', '-qp', '--scripts', "$first/$relative"), 0,
             'RPM script metadata can be read');
-        unlike(read_file($contents_log), qr/postinstall/i,
-            'RPM does not activate the staged image');
+        is(read_file($contents_log), '', 'RPM has no package scripts');
     } else {
         is(run_capture($contents_log, 'dpkg-deb', '-c', "$first/$relative"), 0,
             'DEB payload can be listed');
@@ -315,7 +314,11 @@ sub exercise_packager {
         make_path($control);
         is(run_capture($contents_log, 'dpkg-deb', '-e', "$first/$relative", $control), 0,
             'DEB control files can be extracted');
-        ok(!-e "$control/postinst", 'DEB does not activate the staged image');
+        opendir(my $control_dh, $control) or die $!;
+        my @control_files = sort grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..' } readdir($control_dh);
+        closedir($control_dh) or die $!;
+        is_deeply(\@control_files, [ qw(control md5sums) ],
+            'DEB has no maintainer scripts or triggers');
     }
 }