diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 739b6aa998ed4e9449e7c19779e96871c780dd66..fa5e7567b1511fc4ee4c425f57e16ee735b8892d 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ stages:
     - while true; do sleep 300; x=$(oc get pods |grep $pod|awk '{ print $3}');if [ $x != "Running" ]; then break; fi; done 
     - oc logs jobs/simplejob${CI_PIPELINE_ID} | tee log.txt
     # if spack install has failed, fail the pipeline
-    # - if [ $(cat log.txt |grep "Error:"|wc -l) -gt 0 ]; then exit 1;fi;
+    - if [ $(cat log.txt |grep "Error: No module available for package"|wc -l) -gt 0 ]; then exit 1;fi;
     # delete the job from OpenShift as we have the logs here
     - oc delete job simplejob${CI_PIPELINE_ID} || true
   tags:
diff --git a/spack.yaml b/spack.yaml
index d951abb9ad26b1734fe2257f001f1ad561325259..a21c5f5412dd19896ce4474df22daa5ed0a3d7a8 100644
--- a/spack.yaml
+++ b/spack.yaml
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ spack:
     - py-pyaescrypt %gcc@10.3.0
     - py-formencode %gcc@10.3.0
     - tvb-framework ^binutils+ld+gold %gcc@10.3.0
-    - meta-brainscales %gcc@10.3.0
     - pynn-brainscales@2.0-rc1 ^log4cxx@0.10.0 ^googletest@1.11.0:+gmock %gcc@10.3.0
     #- py-lfpy@2.2.3 %gcc@10.3.0
     #- biobb-common %gcc@10.3.0