diff --git a/roles/taskotron/taskotron-trigger/tasks/main.yml b/roles/taskotron/taskotron-trigger/tasks/main.yml
index 589c4f5f17..4f0fb9e478 100644
--- a/roles/taskotron/taskotron-trigger/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/taskotron/taskotron-trigger/tasks/main.yml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 
 - name: download critpath list
   get_url: url={{ trigger_critpath_url }} dest={{ trigger_critpath_file }} mode=0644 owner=fedmsg group=fedmsg
+  when: deployment_type in ['dev']
 
 - name: create a cronjob to download crithpath list as a task-libabigail whitelist
   cron: