diff --git a/.github/workflows/update.yml b/.github/workflows/update.yml
index 27334cb..db7d5a0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/update.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/update.yml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Encode patches
       id: data
       run: |
-        set -x
+        touch patches.tar.zst
         (cd prev-patches && tar caf ../patches.tar.zst .)
         (printf 'b64=' && base64 -w0 patches.tar.zst && echo) >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
         ls -lh *.tar*