diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/gitea.yml b/.gitea/workflows/gitea.yml
index 93d2ff74..5515812b 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/gitea.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/gitea.yml
@@ -45,5 +45,7 @@ jobs:
           dockerd -H $DOCKER_HOST --userland-proxy=false &
           sleep 5
       - name: "Run gitea tests"
-        run: ./tests/gitea/test.sh
+        run: |
+          export CERC_SCRIPT_DEBUG=true &
+          ./tests/gitea/test.sh
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b7e75aaf..a888895e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # Stack Orchestrator
 
-test
-
 Stack Orchestrator allows building and deployment of a Laconic Stack on a single machine with minimial prerequisites. It is a Python3 CLI tool that runs on any OS with Python3 and Docker. The following diagram summarizes the relevant repositories in the Laconic Stack - and the relationship to Stack Orchestrator.
 
 ![The Stack](/docs/images/laconic-stack.png)
diff --git a/app/data/container-build/cerc-builder-js/build-npm-package.sh b/app/data/container-build/cerc-builder-js/build-npm-package.sh
index 375712e5..499781bb 100755
--- a/app/data/container-build/cerc-builder-js/build-npm-package.sh
+++ b/app/data/container-build/cerc-builder-js/build-npm-package.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,25 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # Usage: build-npm-package.sh <registry-url> <publish-with-this-version>
 # Note: supply the registry auth token in CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN
+#
+
+
 if [[ -n "$CERC_SCRIPT_DEBUG" ]]; then
     set -x
 fi
+
+echo "GITEA ACTIONS 1 is: $GITEA_ACTIONS"
+echo "GITEA ACTIONS 2 is: ${GITEA_ACTIONS}"
+
+echo "token 1 is: $CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN"
+echo "token 2 is: ${CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN}"
+
+if [[ "$GITEA_ACTIONS" = "true" ]]; then
+	echo "WORKS"
+else
+	echo "WTF"
+fi
+
 if ! [[ $# -eq 1 || $# -eq 2 ]]; then
     echo "Illegal number of parameters" >&2
     exit 1
@@ -28,17 +44,20 @@ npm config set @lirewine:registry ${local_npm_registry_url}
 local_npm_registry_url_fixed=$( echo ${local_npm_registry_url} | sed -e 's/^http[s]\{0,1\}://')
 npm config set -- ${local_npm_registry_url_fixed}:_authToken ${CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN}
 # First check if the version of this package we're trying to build already exists in the registry
+# but this line: "jq -r .data.dist.tarball" fails only in gitea, so skip this block
+if [[ "${GITEA_ACTIONS}" != "true" ]]; then
 package_exists=$( yarn info --json ${package_name}@${package_publish_version} 2>/dev/null | jq -r .data.dist.tarball )
-if [[ ! -z "$package_exists" && "$package_exists" != "null" ]]; then
-    echo "${package_publish_version} of ${package_name} already exists in the registry"
-    if [[ ${CERC_FORCE_REBUILD} == "true" ]]; then
-        # Attempt to unpublish the existing package
-        echo "NOTE: unpublishing existing package version since force rebuild is enabled"
-        npm unpublish --force ${package_name}@${package_publish_version}
-    else
-        echo "skipping build since target version already exists"
-        exit 0
-    fi
+  if [[ ! -z "$package_exists" && "$package_exists" != "null" ]]; then
+      echo "${package_publish_version} of ${package_name} already exists in the registry"
+      if [[ ${CERC_FORCE_REBUILD} == "true" ]]; then
+          # Attempt to unpublish the existing package
+          echo "NOTE: unpublishing existing package version since force rebuild is enabled"
+          npm unpublish --force ${package_name}@${package_publish_version}
+      else
+          echo "skipping build since target version already exists"
+          exit 0
+      fi
+  fi
 fi
 echo "Build and publish ${package_name} version ${package_publish_version}"
 yarn install
diff --git a/tests/gitea/test.sh b/tests/gitea/test.sh
index c9c1a681..747986e9 100755
--- a/tests/gitea/test.sh
+++ b/tests/gitea/test.sh
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -e
+
+export CERC_SCRIPT_DEBUG=true
 if [ -n "$CERC_SCRIPT_DEBUG" ]; then
   set -x
 fi
 # Dump environment variables for debugging
 echo "Environment variables:"
 env
+
+echo "holla 1 $GITEA_ACTIONS"
 echo "Running gitea test"
+
 # Bit of a hack, test the most recent package
 TEST_TARGET_SO=$( ls -t1 ./package/laconic-so* | head -1 )
 # Set a non-default repo dir
@@ -25,8 +30,10 @@ $TEST_TARGET_SO --stack package-registry build-containers
 output=$($TEST_TARGET_SO --stack package-registry deploy-system up)
 token=$(echo $output | grep -o 'export CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN=[^ ]*' | cut -d '=' -f 2)
 export CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN=$token
+export GITEA_ACTIONS=true
+echo "holla 2 $GITEA_ACTIONS"
 $TEST_TARGET_SO --stack fixturenet-laconicd setup-repositories 
-$TEST_TARGET_SO --stack fixturenet-laconicd build-npms
+$TEST_TARGET_SO --stack fixturenet-laconicd --verbose --debug build-npms --include laconic-sdk
 
 # Clean up
 $TEST_TARGET_SO --stack package-registry deploy-system down