diff --git a/cmd/repository_test.go b/cmd/repository_test.go
index 267924bc32..3dbc6fd9ad 100644
--- a/cmd/repository_test.go
+++ b/cmd/repository_test.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ func TestRepository_List(t *testing.T) {
 // arguments, respects the repositories' path flag, and the expected name is echoed
 // upon subsequent 'list'.
 func TestRepository_Add(t *testing.T) {
-	url := ServeRepo("repository.git#main", t)
+	url := ServeRepo("repository.git", t) + "#main"
 	_ = FromTempDirectory(t)
 	t.Log(url)
 
diff --git a/pkg/functions/repositories_test.go b/pkg/functions/repositories_test.go
index cbf5e40c1c..64cd7d3c63 100644
--- a/pkg/functions/repositories_test.go
+++ b/pkg/functions/repositories_test.go
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ func TestRepositories_AddWithManifest(t *testing.T) {
 	// defines a custom language pack and makes full use of the manifest.yaml.
 	// The manifest.yaml is included which specifies things like custom templates
 	// location and (appropos to this test) a default name/
-	uri := ServeRepo("repository-a", t) // ./testdata/repository-a.git
+	uri := ServeRepo("repository-a.git", t) // ./testdata/repository-a.git
 	root, rm := Mktemp(t)
 	defer rm()
 
diff --git a/pkg/oci/containerize_test.go b/pkg/oci/containerize_test.go
index 33acffb461..a330b08ea8 100644
--- a/pkg/oci/containerize_test.go
+++ b/pkg/oci/containerize_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package oci
 
 import (
+	"errors"
+	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"runtime"
 	"testing"
@@ -10,7 +12,16 @@ import (
 // links which are absolute or refer to targets outside the given root, in
 // addition to the basic job of returning the value of reading the link.
 func Test_validatedLinkTarget(t *testing.T) {
-	root := "testdata/test-links"
+	root := filepath.Join("testdata", "test-links")
+
+	err := os.Symlink("/var/example/absolute/link", filepath.Join(root, "absoluteLink"))
+	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, os.ErrExist) {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	err = os.Symlink("c://some/absolute/path", filepath.Join(root, "absoluteLinkWindows"))
+	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, os.ErrExist) {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 
 	// Windows-specific absolute link and link target values:
 	absoluteLink := "absoluteLink"
diff --git a/pkg/oci/testdata/test-links/absoluteLink b/pkg/oci/testdata/test-links/absoluteLink
deleted file mode 120000
index 28434a9033..0000000000
--- a/pkg/oci/testdata/test-links/absoluteLink
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/var/example/absolute/link
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkg/oci/testdata/test-links/absoluteLinkWindows b/pkg/oci/testdata/test-links/absoluteLinkWindows
deleted file mode 120000
index c3aaf3f5c3..0000000000
--- a/pkg/oci/testdata/test-links/absoluteLinkWindows
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-c://some/absolute/path
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkg/pipelines/tekton/tasks.go b/pkg/pipelines/tekton/tasks.go
index 71d1bd6d05..d6c5b2764d 100644
--- a/pkg/pipelines/tekton/tasks.go
+++ b/pkg/pipelines/tekton/tasks.go
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ spec:
       description: Reference of the image S2I will produce.
     - name: REGISTRY
       description: The registry associated with the function image.
+      default: ""
     - name: PATH_CONTEXT
       description: The location of the path to run s2i from.
       default: .
diff --git a/pkg/pipelines/tekton/templates_s2i.go b/pkg/pipelines/tekton/templates_s2i.go
index a786587740..a0d1e9ce99 100644
--- a/pkg/pipelines/tekton/templates_s2i.go
+++ b/pkg/pipelines/tekton/templates_s2i.go
@@ -174,12 +174,6 @@ metadata:
     # Fetch the git-clone task from hub
     pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/task: {{.GitCloneTaskRef}}
 
-    # Fetch the func-s2i task
-    pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/task-1: {{.FuncS2iTaskRef}}
-
-    # Fetch the func-deploy task
-    pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/task-2: {{.FuncDeployTaskRef}}
-
     # Fetch the pipelie definition from the .tekton directory
     pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/pipeline: {{.PipelineYamlURL}}
 
diff --git a/pkg/testing/testing.go b/pkg/testing/testing.go
index 9853dac9cb..07b07d6b7c 100644
--- a/pkg/testing/testing.go
+++ b/pkg/testing/testing.go
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ package testing
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"io/fs"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/cgi"
@@ -136,14 +138,57 @@ func cd(t *testing.T, dir string) {
 // such as fromTempDirectory(t)
 func ServeRepo(name string, t *testing.T) string {
 	t.Helper()
-	var (
-		path   = filepath.Join("./testdata", name)
-		dir    = filepath.Dir(path)
-		abs, _ = filepath.Abs(dir)
-		repo   = filepath.Base(path)
-		url    = RunGitServer(abs, t)
-	)
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%v/%v", url, repo)
+
+	gitRoot := t.TempDir()
+
+	// copy repo to the temp dir
+	err := filepath.Walk(filepath.Join("./testdata", name), func(path string, fi fs.FileInfo, err error) error {
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		relp, err := filepath.Rel("./testdata", path)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("cannot get relpath: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		dest := filepath.Join(gitRoot, relp)
+
+		switch {
+		case fi.Mode().IsRegular():
+			var in, out *os.File
+			in, err = os.Open(path)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("cannot open source file: %v", err)
+			}
+			defer in.Close()
+			out, err = os.OpenFile(dest, os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0644)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("cannot open destination file: %v", err)
+			}
+			defer out.Close()
+			_, err = io.Copy(out, in)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("cannot copy data: %v", err)
+			}
+		case fi.IsDir():
+			err = os.MkdirAll(dest, 0755)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("cannot mkdir: %v", err)
+			}
+		default:
+			return fmt.Errorf("unsupported file type")
+		}
+
+		return nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	url := RunGitServer(gitRoot, t)
+
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%v/%v", url, name)
 }
 
 // WithExecutable creates an executable of the given name and source in a temp
diff --git a/rpms.lock.yaml b/rpms.lock.yaml
index 86913b228b..fdaf38defe 100644
--- a/rpms.lock.yaml
+++ b/rpms.lock.yaml
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ arches:
     packages:
       - repoid: ubi-8-appstream-rpms
         url: "https://cdn-ubi.redhat.com/content/public/ubi/dist/ubi8/8/aarch64/appstream/os/Packages/s/socat-1.7.4.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm"
-        size: 320544
-        checksum: "sha256:4e8380ed4b4570663136b8b499bfe343b688bda676028ef5172d2155ac80e6ae"
+        size: 324364
+        checksum: "sha256:eb27326c2f3f7c813f0f21e15177ab3f4c74778e2ef8029de51aafb09445c515"
       - repoid: ubi-8-baseos-rpms
         url: "https://cdn-ubi.redhat.com/content/public/ubi/dist/ubi8/8/aarch64/baseos/os/Packages/t/tar-1.30-9.el8.aarch64.rpm"
         size: 849892