diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flux-core/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flux-core/package.py
index 6f8266770f..19551e99a2 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flux-core/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flux-core/package.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 import os
 
+import spack.util.executable
 from spack.package import *
 
 
@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@ class FluxCore(AutotoolsPackage):
     depends_on("jansson@2.10:", when="@0.21.0:")
     depends_on("pkgconfig")
     depends_on("lz4")
+    depends_on("sqlite")
 
     depends_on("asciidoc", type="build", when="+docs")
     depends_on("py-docutils", type="build", when="@0.32.0:")
@@ -173,9 +175,13 @@ def setup(self):
         with working_dir(self.stage.source_path):
             # Allow git-describe to get last tag so flux-version works:
             git = which("git")
-            git("fetch", "--unshallow")
-            git("config", "remote.origin.fetch", "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*")
-            git("fetch", "origin")
+            # When using spack develop, this will already be unshallow
+            try:
+                git("fetch", "--unshallow")
+                git("config", "remote.origin.fetch", "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*")
+                git("fetch", "origin")
+            except spack.util.executable.ProcessError:
+                git("fetch")
 
     def autoreconf(self, spec, prefix):
         self.setup()
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flux-sched/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flux-sched/package.py
index 9d4a4caa19..337abf5faf 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flux-sched/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/flux-sched/package.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 import os
 
+import spack.util.executable
 from spack.package import *
 
 
@@ -107,9 +108,13 @@ def setup(self):
         with working_dir(self.stage.source_path):
             # Allow git-describe to get last tag so flux-version works:
             git = which("git")
-            git("fetch", "--unshallow")
-            git("config", "remote.origin.fetch", "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*")
-            git("fetch", "origin")
+            # When using spack develop, this will already be unshallow
+            try:
+                git("fetch", "--unshallow")
+                git("config", "remote.origin.fetch", "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*")
+                git("fetch", "origin")
+            except spack.util.executable.ProcessError:
+                git("fetch")
 
     def autoreconf(self, spec, prefix):
         self.setup()