diff --git a/common/travis/check-install.sh b/common/travis/check-install.sh
index 2117e45a1ea..cf8a0ebdedf 100755
--- a/common/travis/check-install.sh
+++ b/common/travis/check-install.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ ROOTDIR="-r /check-install"
 # can choose the one provided by cross-vpkg-dummy instead
 # of the actual package
 # this is fine to do here because it runs last in CI
-sed -i -e '/bootstrap/d' "${CONFDIR#-C }"/*remote*.conf
+for f in "${CONFDIR#-C }"/*remote*.conf; do
+	[ -e "$f" ] || break
+	sed -i -e '/bootstrap/d' "$f"
+done
 
 # if this fails, there were no packages built for this arch and thus no repodatas
 xbps-install $ROOTDIR $ADDREPO $CONFDIR -S || exit 0