diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 586ab8d884..887e609508 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ pull: ## update the Docker image used by "make shell"
 	docker pull edxops/edxapp:latest
 
 requirements: ## install development environment requirements
-	pip install -qr requirements/edx/development.txt --exists-action w
+	pip install -qr requirements/edx/pip-tools.txt
+	pip-sync -q requirements/edx/development.txt requirements/edx/private.*
 
 shell: ## launch a bash shell in a Docker container with all edx-platform dependencies installed
 	docker run -it -e "NO_PYTHON_UNINSTALL=1" -e "PIP_INDEX_URL=https://pypi.python.org/simple" -e TERM \
diff --git a/scripts/jenkins-common.sh b/scripts/jenkins-common.sh
index b1a56b1f39..d4048817d9 100644
--- a/scripts/jenkins-common.sh
+++ b/scripts/jenkins-common.sh
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ fi
 # Activate the Python virtualenv
 source $VENV_PATH/edx-venv/bin/activate
 
+# Hack to fix up egg-link files given that the virtualenv is not relocatable
+sed -i "s|^/home/jenkins/shallow-clone|`pwd`|" -- \
+    $VENV_PATH/edx-venv/lib/python*/site-packages/*.egg-link
+pip install -qr requirements/edx/pip-tools.txt
+pip-sync -q requirements/edx/testing.txt requirements/edx/django.txt
+
 # add the node packages dir to PATH
 PATH=$PATH:node_modules/.bin
 
diff --git a/scripts/xdist/setup_worker.sh b/scripts/xdist/setup_worker.sh
index 3456c8ecd5..1fd4f8c24f 100755
--- a/scripts/xdist/setup_worker.sh
+++ b/scripts/xdist/setup_worker.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ rm -rf $venv
 tar -C $venv_parent -xf /home/jenkins/edx-venv_clean-${PYTHON_VERSION}.tar.gz
 source $venv/bin/activate
 
-pip install -q -r ${DJANGO_REQUIREMENT} -r requirements/edx/testing.txt
+# Hack to fix up egg-link files given that the virtualenv is not relocatable
+sed -i "s|\(^/home/jenkins\)/shallow-clone|\1/edx-platform|" -- \
+    $venv/lib/python*/site-packages/*.egg-link
+pip install -qr requirements/edx/pip-tools.txt
+pip-sync -q requirements/edx/testing.txt "${DJANGO_REQUIREMENT}"
 
 mkdir reports