diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 27455c75..87036d60 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -183,21 +183,6 @@ ubuntu_jammy_pip:
     - LANGUAGE='de' fdroid --help | grep 'Gültige Befehle sind'
 
 
-# test installation process on a bleeding edge distro with pip
-arch_pip_install:
-  image: archlinux
-  only:
-    - master@fdroid/fdroidserver
-  script:
-    - pacman --sync --sysupgrade --refresh --noconfirm gcc git grep python-pip python-virtualenv python-wheel tar
-    - python -m venv venv
-    - source venv/bin/activate
-    - pip install -e .[test]
-    - fdroid
-    - fdroid readmeta
-    - fdroid update --help
-
-
 # The gradlew-fdroid tests are isolated from the rest of the test
 # suite, so they run as their own job.
 gradlew-fdroid:
diff --git a/tests/test_checkupdates.py b/tests/test_checkupdates.py
index 87420d2b..fcd6f642 100755
--- a/tests/test_checkupdates.py
+++ b/tests/test_checkupdates.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import git
 import os
+import platform
 import shutil
 import tempfile
 import time
@@ -490,6 +491,10 @@ class CheckupdatesTest(unittest.TestCase):
                 fdroidserver.checkupdates.main()
         sys_exit.assert_not_called()
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(
+        platform.system() == 'Darwin',
+        'It is difficult to configure the base system for this test.',
+    )
     def test_get_upstream_main_branch(self):
         os.chdir(self.testdir.name)
         testvalue = 'foo'