diff --git a/revdep-dev/Makefile b/revdep-dev/Makefile
index dd99aa644..32ddcbf1a 100644
--- a/revdep-dev/Makefile
+++ b/revdep-dev/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ all: test
 TESTTHAT_REPORTER ?= testthat::ProgressReporter\$$new(max_failures = Inf, update_interval = Inf)
 
 # The REVDEP definition also decides what is run on GitHub Actions in backends.yaml
-REVDEP := RMariaDB RSQLite RPostgres RKazam duckdb odbc-SQLServer odbc-MySQL odbc-PostgreSQL odbc-SQLite
+REVDEP := RMariaDB RSQLite RPostgres RKazam duckdb-r odbc-SQLServer odbc-MySQL odbc-PostgreSQL odbc-SQLite
 TEST_TARGETS := $(patsubst %,test-%,${REVDEP})
 
 LIB_DIR := $(shell Rscript -e "cat(.libPaths()[1])")
@@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ RKazam RSQLite RPostgres RMySQL RMariaDB odbc:
 odbc-%: odbc
 	@true
 
-duckdb:
-	# Use local checkout if available, otherwise clone from cwida GitHub
-	if [ -d ../../../$@ ]; then ln -s $$(realpath ../../../$@/tools/rpkg) $@; else git clone https://github.com/duckdb/$@.git duckdb-core; ln -s duckdb-core/tools/rpkg $@; fi
-	ls -l
+duckdb-r:
+	# Use local checkout if available, otherwise clone from duckdb GitHub
+	if [ -d ../../$@ ]; then ln -s $$(realpath ../../$@) $@; else git clone https://github.com/duckdb/$@.git; fi
 	head $@/DESCRIPTION
 
 bigrquery: