diff --git a/ci/hermetic/update_rpms_lockfile b/ci/hermetic/update_rpms_lockfile
index b2aa98821d..d26f59d56b 100755
--- a/ci/hermetic/update_rpms_lockfile
+++ b/ci/hermetic/update_rpms_lockfile
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &> /dev/null && pwd)"
+REPO_ROOT="$(realpath "${SCRIPT_DIR}/../..")"
+
 # We update the 'packages' list in the rpms.in.yaml based on the content
 # of the *deps*.txt file located in src/.
-dep_files=$(find ../../src/ -name "*deps*.txt" | tr '\n' ' ')
+dep_files=$(find "${REPO_ROOT}/src/" -name "*deps*.txt" | tr '\n' ' ')
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-./update_package_list --package_file $dep_files --yaml_file rpms.in.yaml
+${SCRIPT_DIR}/update_package_list --package_file $dep_files --yaml_file ${REPO_ROOT}/rpms.in.yaml
 
 # Then we update the rpms.lock.yaml file based on rpms.in.yaml with
 # rpm-lockfile-prototype.
@@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ else
     exit 1
 fi
 
-rpm-lockfile-prototype rpms.in.yaml --outfile rpms.lock.yaml
+rpm-lockfile-prototype ${REPO_ROOT}/rpms.in.yaml --outfile ${REPO_ROOT}/rpms.lock.yaml
 
 echo "Deactivating virtual environment..."
 deactivate
diff --git a/ci/hermetic/rpms.in.yaml b/rpms.in.yaml
similarity index 99%
rename from ci/hermetic/rpms.in.yaml
rename to rpms.in.yaml
index 93ad9ba0c5..3cef7898ce 100644
--- a/ci/hermetic/rpms.in.yaml
+++ b/rpms.in.yaml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ contentOrigin:
       varsFromContainerfile: "Dockerfile"
 
 context:
-  bare: false
+  containerfile: ./Dockerfile
 
 # TODO: for now we only enable x86_64 to speed up development and we'll add the remaining arches once the 
 # whole pipeline (i.e build, testing and release) ready.
diff --git a/ci/hermetic/rpms.lock.yaml b/rpms.lock.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from ci/hermetic/rpms.lock.yaml
rename to rpms.lock.yaml