diff --git a/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside.yml b/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside.yml
index 5d7b036bb6..a8fef0f291 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/lookaside.yml
@@ -39,15 +39,7 @@
     target: /srv/cache/lookaside/pkgs
 
   tasks:
-  - unarchive: src={{intermediary}}/pkgs02.phx2.fedoraproject.org/{{tarball}}
-               dest={{target}}
-  #- copy: src={{intermediary}}/pkgs02.phx2.fedoraproject.org/{{tarball}}
-  #        dest={{tarball}}
-  #- command: tar -xJvf {{tarball}}
-  #           chdir={{target}}
-  #- name: clean up the tarball we copied there
-  #  file: dest={{tarball}} state=absent
-
+  - unarchive: src={{intermediary}}/pkgs02.phx2.fedoraproject.org/{{tarball}} dest=/
 
 - name: finish cleaning up after ourselves
   hosts: lockbox;pkgs;pkgs-stg