diff --git a/ucore/Containerfile b/ucore/Containerfile
index b3a422e..e781370 100644
--- a/ucore/Containerfile
+++ b/ucore/Containerfile
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ COPY --from=docker.io/docker/compose-bin:latest /docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-
 FROM ucore-minimal AS ucore
 
 ARG COREOS_VERSION="${COREOS_VERSION:-stable}"
+ARG ZFS_TAG="${ZFS_TAG}"
 
 COPY *.sh /tmp/
 COPY packages.json /tmp/packages.json
diff --git a/ucore/install-ucore-minimal.sh b/ucore/install-ucore-minimal.sh
index ecbae46..82ed27f 100755
--- a/ucore/install-ucore-minimal.sh
+++ b/ucore/install-ucore-minimal.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ for REPO in $(ls /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing{,-modular}.repo); do
 done
 fi
 
+# add the ucore copr repo
+curl -L https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ublue-os/ucore/repo/fedora/ublue-os-ucore-fedora.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/ublue-os-ucore-fedora.repo
+
 # always disable cisco-open264 repo
 sed -i 's@enabled=1@enabled=0@g' /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cisco-openh264.repo
 
@@ -28,14 +31,6 @@ rpm-ostree install /tmp/rpms/ublue-os-ucore-addons-*.rpm
 ## CONDITIONAL: install ZFS (and sanoid deps)
 if [[ "-zfs" == "${ZFS_TAG}" ]]; then
     rpm-ostree install /tmp/rpms/zfs/*.rpm \
-      lzop \
-      mbuffer \
-      mhash \
-      perl-Capture-Tiny \
-      perl-Config-IniFiles \
-      perl-Data-Dumper \
-      perl-Getopt-Long \
-      perl-Sys-Hostname \
       pv
     # for some reason depmod ran automatically with zfs 2.1 but not with 2.2
     depmod -A ${KERNEL}
diff --git a/ucore/install-ucore.sh b/ucore/install-ucore.sh
index e0060bc..ba6834e 100755
--- a/ucore/install-ucore.sh
+++ b/ucore/install-ucore.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 set -ouex pipefail
 
+## CONDITIONAL: install sanoid if ZFS
+if [[ "-zfs" == "${ZFS_TAG}" ]]; then
+    rpm-ostree install sanoid
+fi
+
 # install packages.json stuffs
 export IMAGE_NAME=ucore
 /tmp/packages.sh