diff --git a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/package.yml b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/package.yml
index 51c0c1af..460232cc 100644
--- a/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/package.yml
+++ b/projects/github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/package.yml
@@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ build:
       bkpyvenv seal {{prefix}} convert.py
 
 test:
-  '{{prefix}}/bin/llama.cpp --help'
+  llama.cpp --version
+  # broke in 2453, difficult to filter due to calver tweaks
+  # llama.cpp --help
   # ^^ testing more than this requires downloading the models 😬
 
 entrypoint: ./entrypoint.sh