diff --git a/roles/copr/keygen/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/keygen/tasks/main.yml
index a64e683661..0e1d82c2d6 100644
--- a/roles/copr/keygen/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/keygen/tasks/main.yml
@@ -29,9 +29,11 @@
 
 - name: make sure there is gnupg2 2.0.x as temporary workaround till we add support of v4 to obs-sign
   dnf: name=https://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/repo/23/x86_64/gnupg2-2.0.29-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm state=present
+  when: not devel
 
 - name: exclude gnupg2 from upgrade
   ini_file: dest=/etc/dnf/dnf.conf section=main option=exclude value=gnupg2
+  when: not devel
   tags:
   - config