diff --git a/srcpkgs/Rocket.Chat-Desktop/template b/srcpkgs/Rocket.Chat-Desktop/template
index 6b9879918fb..59d7363dac2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/Rocket.Chat-Desktop/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/Rocket.Chat-Desktop/template
@@ -16,15 +16,16 @@ checksum=c8c4f4d29ffe7cee825e7967bdabe1abdadc7153f169c36ee971b491a29628b1
 
 export USE_SYSTEM_APP_BUILDER=true
 
-case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
-	i686*) broken="https://build.voidlinux.org/builders/i686_builder/builds/27897/steps/shell_3/logs/stdio"
-esac
-
 do_configure() {
 	# we can't make electron skip binary download as that fails in do_build
 	# so instead, force a bogus architecture so it downloads its binary
 	# artifact, it will use the system one later anyway
-	npm_config_arch=x64 \
+	# but this appears to fail on i686, so don't override there
+	local carch=x64
+	case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
+		i686*) carch=ia32 ;;
+	esac
+	npm_config_arch=$carch \
 		yarn upgrade electron@"$(</usr/lib/electron${_electron_ver}/version)" \
 			--non-interactive
 }