diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 3428773b09..684ef5c00d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ jobs:
       CC: ${{matrix.vector.cc}}
       CC_PACKAGE: ${{matrix.vector.cc_package}}
       jobname: ${{matrix.vector.jobname}}
-      runs_on_pool: ${{matrix.vector.pool}}
+      distro: ${{matrix.vector.pool}}
     runs-on: ${{matrix.vector.pool}}
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/ci/install-dependencies.sh b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
index b4e22de3cb..7d247b5ef4 100755
--- a/ci/install-dependencies.sh
+++ b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ UBUNTU_COMMON_PKGS="make libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev
  tcl tk gettext zlib1g-dev perl-modules liberror-perl libauthen-sasl-perl
  libemail-valid-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl"
 
-case "$runs_on_pool" in
+case "$distro" in
 ubuntu-*)
 	sudo apt-get -q update
 	sudo apt-get -q -y install language-pack-is libsvn-perl apache2 \
diff --git a/ci/lib.sh b/ci/lib.sh
index 0a73fc7bd1..d882250db5 100755
--- a/ci/lib.sh
+++ b/ci/lib.sh
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ then
 
 	cache_dir="$HOME/none"
 
-	runs_on_pool=$(echo "$CI_JOB_IMAGE" | tr : -)
+	distro=$(echo "$CI_JOB_IMAGE" | tr : -)
 	JOBS=$(nproc)
 else
 	echo "Could not identify CI type" >&2
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ export DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove
 export GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB=true
 export SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS=YesPlease
 
-case "$runs_on_pool" in
+case "$distro" in
 ubuntu-*)
 	if test "$jobname" = "linux-gcc-default"
 	then