diff --git a/scripts/update-javascript.sh b/scripts/update-javascript.sh
index b59964dc..124f8561 100644
--- a/scripts/update-javascript.sh
+++ b/scripts/update-javascript.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 set -euo pipefail
 
 tagPrefix=''
+updatePeerPackages=0
 repo="https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript.git"
 packages=('@sentry/browser' '@sentry/core' '@sentry/integrations' '@sentry/types' '@sentry/utils')
 #TODO: remove @sentry/hub and @sentry/tracing on next major release.
diff --git a/scripts/update-package-json.sh b/scripts/update-package-json.sh
index 2105118e..86f2528a 100644
--- a/scripts/update-package-json.sh
+++ b/scripts/update-package-json.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ set-version)
     done
     (
         cd "$(dirname "$file")"
-        if [ -n "$updatePeerPackages" ] && [ "$updatePeerPackages" -eq 1 ]; then
+        if [ "$updatePeerPackages" -eq 1 ]; then
             #upgrade doesn't support peerDependencies so we'll use the yarn option.
             yarn add --peer $list --update-sentry-capacitor
         else
diff --git a/scripts/update-wizard.sh b/scripts/update-wizard.sh
index dca6fdf5..a73551db 100644
--- a/scripts/update-wizard.sh
+++ b/scripts/update-wizard.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 set -euo pipefail
 
 tagPrefix='v' # wizard has a prefix in the repo, but the package.json doesn't have that - we must align
+updatePeerPackages=0
 repo="https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-wizard.git"
 packages=('@sentry/wizard')