diff --git a/.github/scripts/depexts/generate-actions.sh b/.github/scripts/depexts/generate-actions.sh
index e2ae0b7b9fe..f7860296268 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/depexts/generate-actions.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/depexts/generate-actions.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ EOF
 mainlibs="m4 git rsync patch tar unzip bzip2 make wget"
 ocaml="ocaml ocaml-compiler-libs"
 
+OCAML_CONSTRAINT=''
+
 case "$target" in
   alpine)
     cat >$dir/Dockerfile << EOF
@@ -37,6 +39,8 @@ RUN pacman -Syu --noconfirm $mainlibs $ocaml gcc diffutils
 EOF
     ;;
  centos)
+   # CentOS 7 doesn't support OCaml 5 (GCC is too old)
+   OCAML_CONSTRAINT=' & < "5.0"'
     cat >$dir/Dockerfile << EOF
 FROM centos:7
 RUN yum install -y $mainlibs $ocaml
@@ -120,7 +124,7 @@ set -eux
 
 git config --global --add safe.directory /github/workspace
 # For systems that don't have an up to date compiler, to avoid ocaml-secondary
-echo 'default-invariant: [ "ocaml" {>= "4.09.0"} ]' > /opam/opamrc
+echo 'default-invariant: [ "ocaml" {>= "4.09.0"$OCAML_CONSTRAINT} ]' > /opam/opamrc
 opam init --no-setup --disable-sandboxing --bare --config /opam/opamrc git+$OPAM_REPO#$OPAM_REPO_SHA
 echo 'archive-mirrors: "https://opam.ocaml.org/cache"' >> \$OPAMROOT/config
 opam switch create this-opam ocaml