diff --git a/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml b/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml
index c690e5b0..02e5e81b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/push-docker-image.yml
@@ -106,13 +106,6 @@ jobs:
       packages: write
 
     steps:
-      # checkout on admiral repo to get DESCRIPTION file
-      - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          repository: ${{ github.repository_owner }}/admiral
-          token: ${{ secrets.PHARMAVERSE_BOT }}
 
       - name: Set image specs
         id: image_specs
@@ -127,7 +120,7 @@ jobs:
           tag-latest: true
           base-image: "rocker/rstudio:devel"
           sysdeps: qpdf,libxt-dev,curl,npm,libicu-dev,libcurl4-openssl-dev,libssl-dev,make,zlib1g-dev,libfontconfig1-dev,libfreetype6-dev,libfribidi-dev,libharfbuzz-dev,libjpeg-dev,libpng-dev,libtiff-dev,pandoc,libxml2-dev,libgit2-dev,libgit2-dev,jq
-          description-file: "DESCRIPTION"
+          description-file: "https://github.com/pharmaverse/admiral/DESCRIPTION"
           repository-owner: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
           repo-user: "pharmaverse-bot"
           repo-token: "${{ secrets.PHARMAVERSE_BOT }}"