diff --git a/scripts/package-build/build.py b/scripts/package-build/build.py
index 0648b56496..7212b6cfb0 100755
--- a/scripts/package-build/build.py
+++ b/scripts/package-build/build.py
@@ -75,12 +75,11 @@ def prepare_package(repo_dir: Path, install_data: str) -> None:
         raise
 
 
-def build_package(package: list, dependencies: list, patch_dir: Path) -> None:
+def build_package(package: list, patch_dir: Path) -> None:
     """Build a package from the repository
 
     Args:
         package (list): List of Packages from toml
-        dependencies (list): List of additional dependencies
         patch_dir (Path): Directory containing patches
     """
     repo_name = package['name']
@@ -94,9 +93,6 @@ def build_package(package: list, dependencies: list, patch_dir: Path) -> None:
         # Check out the specific commit
         run(['git', 'checkout', package['commit_id']], cwd=repo_dir, check=True)
 
-        # Ensure dependencies
-        ensure_dependencies(dependencies)
-
         # Apply patches if any
         if (repo_dir / 'patches'):
             apply_patches(repo_dir, patch_dir)
@@ -177,11 +173,14 @@ def copy_packages(repo_dir: Path) -> None:
     packages = config['packages']
     patch_dir = Path(args.patch_dir)
 
-    for package in packages:
-        dependencies = package.get('dependencies', {}).get('packages', [])
+    # Load global dependencies
+    global_dependencies = config.get('dependencies', {}).get('packages', [])
+    if global_dependencies:
+        ensure_dependencies(global_dependencies)
 
+    for package in packages:
         # Build the package
-        build_package(package, dependencies, patch_dir)
+        build_package(package, patch_dir)
 
         # Clean up build dependency packages after build
         cleanup_build_deps(Path(package['name']))
diff --git a/scripts/package-build/frr/.gitignore b/scripts/package-build/frr/.gitignore
index 590895c0b7..f22f674721 100644
--- a/scripts/package-build/frr/.gitignore
+++ b/scripts/package-build/frr/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ libyang/
 *.changes
 *.deb
 *.dsc
+*.tar.gz
diff --git a/scripts/package-build/frr/package.toml b/scripts/package-build/frr/package.toml
index 48d51ae686..caae35372d 100644
--- a/scripts/package-build/frr/package.toml
+++ b/scripts/package-build/frr/package.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ commit_id = "stable/9.1"
 scm_url = "https://github.com/FRRouting/frr.git"
 build_cmd = "sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb; sudo dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -tc -b -Ppkg.frr.rtrlib,pkg.frr.lua"
 
-[packages.dependencies]
+[dependencies]
 packages = [
     "chrpath",
     "gawk",
diff --git a/scripts/package-build/tacacs/.gitignore b/scripts/package-build/tacacs/.gitignore
index 7588fff434..142020c572 100644
--- a/scripts/package-build/tacacs/.gitignore
+++ b/scripts/package-build/tacacs/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ libtacplus-map/
 *.changes
 *.deb
 *.dsc
+*.tar.gz
diff --git a/scripts/package-build/tacacs/package.toml b/scripts/package-build/tacacs/package.toml
index ec50ca850d..fde9df6ed5 100644
--- a/scripts/package-build/tacacs/package.toml
+++ b/scripts/package-build/tacacs/package.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ commit_id = "master"
 scm_url = "https://github.com/vyos/libnss-tacplus.git"
 build_cmd = "sudo dpkg -i ../libtac*.deb ../libpam-tacplus*.deb; dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -tc -b"
 
-[packages.dependencies]
+[dependencies]
 packages = [
     "libpam-dev",
     "autoconf-archive",