diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 10e84cc3f88d86eb9e4470dfe22039e513e9a48a..d45273bbad39da7a7fa3cbb3a80a1b250da08a1b 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-^renv$
-^renv\.lock$
 ^.gitlab-ci.yml
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
 ^\.Rprofile$
+^cache$
 ^ci$
 ^config.yml
 ^data-raw$
@@ -16,4 +15,6 @@
 ^Meta$
 ^packrat/
 ^public$
+^renv$
+^renv\.lock$
 ^tmp$
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index ba5aa05cebdafe81a433bf08aa79e6a26a4959ab..36b94fd259e9e27513ac1f6da19ce4628603ebca 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -13,17 +13,15 @@ test:
   variables:
     RETICULATE_MINICONDA_PATH: "/root/.local/share/r-miniconda/"
     RETICULATE_PYTHON_ENV: "/root/.local/share/r-miniconda/envs/r-reticulate/"
-    RENV_CONFIG_EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES: "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:/usr/local/lib/R/library"
+    RENV_CONFIG_EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES: "/usr/local/lib/R/library"
     RENV_PATHS_CACHE: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/cache"
     RENV_PATHS_LIBRARY: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/renv/library"
   before_script:
-    # Install deps or load from renv
     - R -e "if (!requireNamespace('renv', quietly = TRUE)) install.packages('renv')"
-    #- R -e 'renv::restore()'
+    #- R -e 'renv::restore()' does fail while loading Bioconductor packages
     - R -e 'renv::install()'
     - R -e 'renv::install("bioc::rhdf5")'
   script:
-    # Build and Check r2ogs6
     - R CMD build . --no-build-vignettes --no-manual
     - R CMD check $(ls -1t *.tar.gz | head -n 1) --no-build-vignettes --no-manual
   after_script: