diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages b/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
index 1a31d71086f..5c42080745e 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ export LUAROCKS_CONFIG="$NIXPKGS_PATH/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-config.lua"
 
 # 10 is a pretty arbitrary number of simultaneous jobs, but it is generally
 # impolite to hit a webserver with *too* many simultaneous connections :)
-PARALLEL_JOBS=10
+PARALLEL_JOBS=1
 
 exit_trap() {
     local lc="$BASH_COMMAND" rc=$?