diff --git a/toolkit/tools/internal/packagerepo/repocloner/rpmrepocloner/rpmrepocloner.go b/toolkit/tools/internal/packagerepo/repocloner/rpmrepocloner/rpmrepocloner.go
index bad733feae5..ec03b5bfb42 100644
--- a/toolkit/tools/internal/packagerepo/repocloner/rpmrepocloner/rpmrepocloner.go
+++ b/toolkit/tools/internal/packagerepo/repocloner/rpmrepocloner/rpmrepocloner.go
@@ -267,10 +267,15 @@ func (r *RpmRepoCloner) Clone(cloneDeps bool, packagesToClone ...*pkgjson.Packag
 	for _, pkg := range packagesToClone {
 		pkgName := convertPackageVersionToTdnfArg(pkg)
 
+		downloadDir := chrootDownloadDir
+		if !buildpipeline.IsRegularBuild() {
+			downloadDir = cacheRepoDir
+		}
+
 		logger.Log.Debugf("Cloning: %s", pkgName)
 		args := []string{
 			"--destdir",
-			chrootDownloadDir,
+			downloadDir,
 			pkgName,
 		}