diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 9464ec16850..517cd935855 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ task:
     folder: "/tmp/ccache_dir"
   depends_built_cache:
     folder: "/tmp/cirrus-ci-build/depends/built"
-  depends_sdk_cache:
-    folder: "/tmp/cirrus-ci-build/depends/sdk-sources"
   install_script:
     - apt-get update
     - apt-get -y install git bash ccache
diff --git a/ci/README.md b/ci/README.md
index 16c481158f3..fb1cd7460b6 100644
--- a/ci/README.md
+++ b/ci/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ To allow for a wide range of tested environments, but also ensure reproducibilit
 requires `docker` to be installed. To install all requirements on Ubuntu, run
 
 ```
-sudo apt install docker.io ccache bash git
+sudo apt install docker.io bash git
 ```
 
 To run the default test stage,
diff --git a/ci/test/04_install.sh b/ci/test/04_install.sh
index d0831a4c13c..df07b8fe5cd 100755
--- a/ci/test/04_install.sh
+++ b/ci/test/04_install.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "osx" ]; then
 fi
 
 mkdir -p "${BASE_SCRATCH_DIR}"
-ccache echo "Creating ccache dir if it didn't already exist"
+mkdir -p "${CCACHE_DIR}"
 
 if [ ! -d ${DIR_QA_ASSETS} ]; then
   git clone https://github.com/bitcoin-core/qa-assets ${DIR_QA_ASSETS}