diff --git a/build/debian/build.sh b/build/debian/build.sh
index 8c17514..3d3820a 100755
--- a/build/debian/build.sh
+++ b/build/debian/build.sh
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
         # just for testing
         echo libseccomp: $(curl -is https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libs/libseccomp/libseccomp2_2.5.4-1+deb12u1_arm64.deb | head -n 1)
         echo libsemanage-common: $(curl -is https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libs/libsemanage/libsemanage-common_3.4-1_all.deb | head -n 1)
+        echo libpcre2: $(curl -is https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pcre2/libpcre2-8-0_10.42-1_arm64.deb | head -n 1)
 }
 
 download_debian_cloud_image() {
diff --git a/build/debian/fai_config/hooks/extrbase.BASE b/build/debian/fai_config/hooks/extrbase.BASE
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..05d1e96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/debian/fai_config/hooks/extrbase.BASE
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -euE
+
+touch "${LOGDIR}/skip.extrbase"
+
+debootstrap --verbose --variant minbase --arch "$DEBOOTSTRAP_ARCH" "$SUITE" "$FAI_ROOT" "$DEBOOTSTRAP_MIRROR"