diff --git a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/APKBUILD b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/APKBUILD
index 6cb68d26d..730e14606 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Co-Maintainer: Clayton Craft <clayton@craftyguy.net>
 pkgname=postmarketos-mkinitfs
 pkgver=2.2
-pkgrel=0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Tool to generate initramfs images for postmarketOS"
 url="https://postmarketos.org"
 depends="
diff --git a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/postmarketos-mkinitfs.trigger b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/postmarketos-mkinitfs.trigger
index 943901ed2..1c601891f 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/postmarketos-mkinitfs.trigger
+++ b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/postmarketos-mkinitfs.trigger
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
-/usr/sbin/mkinitfs
+# only invoke mkinitfs if the deviceinfo exists in the rootfs
+{ [ -f /etc/deviceinfo ] || [ -f /usr/share/deviceinfo/deviceinfo ]; } && /usr/sbin/mkinitfs
 exit 0