diff --git a/osbuild-composer.spec b/osbuild-composer.spec
index f440ac653b..61f0ae1afb 100644
--- a/osbuild-composer.spec
+++ b/osbuild-composer.spec
@@ -164,7 +164,8 @@ install -m 0644 -vp vendor/github.com/osbuild/images/data/repositories/centos-*
 %else
 # All other CentOS versions support building for the same version
 install -m 0644 -vp vendor/github.com/osbuild/images/data/repositories/centos-%{centos}*                 %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/osbuild-composer/repositories/
-install -m 0644 -vp vendor/github.com/osbuild/images/data/repositories/centos-stream-%{centos}*          %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/osbuild-composer/repositories/
+# centos-stream-* are symlinks
+cp -a repositories/centos-stream-%{centos}*          %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/osbuild-composer/repositories/
 %endif
 
 %else