diff --git a/pagure/hooks/__init__.py b/pagure/hooks/__init__.py
index 660e6a0..d7b949f 100644
--- a/pagure/hooks/__init__.py
+++ b/pagure/hooks/__init__.py
@@ -435,10 +435,9 @@ def run_project_hooks(
         if hook.startswith(hooktype + "."):
             hookfile = os.path.join(hookdir, hook)
 
-            # Determine if this is an actual hook, or if it's a remnant
-            # from a hook that was installed before it was moved to the
-            # runner system.
-            if os.path.realpath(hookfile) == pagure.lib.query.HOOK_DNE_TARGET:
+            # By-pass all the old hooks that pagure may have created before
+            # moving to the runner architecture
+            if hook in pagure.lib.query.ORIGINAL_PAGURE_HOOK:
                 continue
 
             # Execute
diff --git a/pagure/lib/query.py b/pagure/lib/query.py
index 87b90b5..ecf7434 100644
--- a/pagure/lib/query.py
+++ b/pagure/lib/query.py
@@ -69,9 +69,23 @@ from pagure.lib import tasks_services
 REDIS = None
 PAGURE_CI = None
 _log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-# The target for hooks migrated to the Runner system, to be able to detect
-# whether a hook was migrated without having to open and read the file
-HOOK_DNE_TARGET = "/does/not/exist"
+# List of all the possible hooks pagure could generate before it was moved
+# to the runner architecture we now use.
+# This list is kept so we can ignore all of these hooks.
+ORIGINAL_PAGURE_HOOK = [
+    "post-receive.default",
+    "post-receive.fedmsg",
+    "post-receive.irc",
+    "post-receive.mail",
+    "post-receive.mirror",
+    "post-receive.pagure",
+    "post-receive.pagure-requests",
+    "post-receive.pagure-ticket",
+    "post-receive.rtd",
+    "pre-receive.pagure_no_new_branches",
+    "pre-receive.pagureforcecommit",
+    "pre-receive.pagureunsignedcommit",
+]
 
 
 def get_repotypes():
diff --git a/pagure/lib/tasks.py b/pagure/lib/tasks.py
index a3deb4e..051d785 100644
--- a/pagure/lib/tasks.py
+++ b/pagure/lib/tasks.py
@@ -605,7 +605,6 @@ def move_to_repospanner(self, session, name, namespace, user, region):
             raise Exception("Project is already on repoSpanner")
 
         #  Make sure that no non-runner hooks are enabled for this project
-        compatible_targets = [pagure.lib.query.HOOK_DNE_TARGET]
         incompatible_hooks = []
         for repotype in pagure.lib.query.get_repotypes():
             path = project.repopath(repotype)
@@ -620,8 +619,7 @@ def move_to_repospanner(self, session, name, namespace, user, region):
                 if hook.endswith(".sample"):
                     # Ignore the samples that Git inserts
                     continue
-                hookfile = os.path.join(hookpath, hook)
-                if os.path.realpath(hookfile) not in compatible_targets:
+                if hook not in pagure.lib.query.ORIGINAL_PAGURE_HOOK:
                     incompatible_hooks.append((repotype, hook))
 
         if incompatible_hooks: