diff --git a/dist/setup/index.js b/dist/setup/index.js
index 804d6a32..d5793b2d 100644
--- a/dist/setup/index.js
+++ b/dist/setup/index.js
@@ -66108,10 +66108,18 @@ class PoetryCache extends cache_distributor_1.default {
             // Same virtualenvs path may appear for different projects, hence we use a Set
             const paths = new Set();
             const globber = yield glob.create(this.patterns);
+            const pythonLocation = yield io.which('python');
+            if (pythonLocation) {
+                core.debug(`pythonLocation is ${pythonLocation}`);
+            }
+            else {
+                utils_1.logWarning('python binaries were not found in PATH');
+            }
             try {
                 for (var _b = __asyncValues(globber.globGenerator()), _c; _c = yield _b.next(), !_c.done;) {
                     const file = _c.value;
                     const basedir = path.dirname(file);
+                    core.debug(`Processing Poetry project at ${basedir}`);
                     const poetryConfig = yield this.getPoetryConfiguration(basedir);
                     const cacheDir = poetryConfig['cache-dir'];
                     const virtualenvsPath = poetryConfig['virtualenvs.path'].replace('{cache-dir}', cacheDir);
@@ -66119,6 +66127,12 @@ class PoetryCache extends cache_distributor_1.default {
                     if (poetryConfig['virtualenvs.in-project'] === true) {
                         paths.add(path.join(basedir, '.venv'));
                     }
+                    if (pythonLocation) {
+                        const { exitCode, stderr } = yield exec.getExecOutput('poetry', ['env', 'use', pythonLocation], { ignoreReturnCode: true, cwd: basedir });
+                        if (exitCode) {
+                            utils_1.logWarning(stderr);
+                        }
+                    }
                 }
             }
             catch (e_1_1) { e_1 = { error: e_1_1 }; }
@@ -66128,17 +66142,6 @@ class PoetryCache extends cache_distributor_1.default {
                 }
                 finally { if (e_1) throw e_1.error; }
             }
-            const pythonLocation = yield io.which('python');
-            if (pythonLocation) {
-                core.debug(`pythonLocation is ${pythonLocation}`);
-                const { exitCode, stderr } = yield exec.getExecOutput(`poetry env use ${pythonLocation}`, undefined, { ignoreReturnCode: true });
-                if (exitCode) {
-                    utils_1.logWarning(stderr);
-                }
-            }
-            else {
-                utils_1.logWarning('python binaries were not found in PATH');
-            }
             return [...paths];
         });
     }
diff --git a/src/cache-distributions/poetry-cache.ts b/src/cache-distributions/poetry-cache.ts
index a0666d44..ac394645 100644
--- a/src/cache-distributions/poetry-cache.ts
+++ b/src/cache-distributions/poetry-cache.ts
@@ -20,8 +20,17 @@ class PoetryCache extends CacheDistributor {
     const paths = new Set<string>();
     const globber = await glob.create(this.patterns);
 
+    const pythonLocation = await io.which('python');
+    if (pythonLocation) {
+      core.debug(`pythonLocation is ${pythonLocation}`);
+    } else {
+      logWarning('python binaries were not found in PATH');
+    }
+
     for await (const file of globber.globGenerator()) {
       const basedir = path.dirname(file);
+      core.debug(`Processing Poetry project at ${basedir}`);
+
       const poetryConfig = await this.getPoetryConfiguration(basedir);
 
       const cacheDir = poetryConfig['cache-dir'];
@@ -35,26 +44,18 @@ class PoetryCache extends CacheDistributor {
       if (poetryConfig['virtualenvs.in-project'] === true) {
         paths.add(path.join(basedir, '.venv'));
       }
-    }
 
-    const pythonLocation = await io.which('python');
+      if (pythonLocation) {
+        const {exitCode, stderr} = await exec.getExecOutput(
+          'poetry',
+          ['env', 'use', pythonLocation],
+          {ignoreReturnCode: true, cwd: basedir}
+        );
 
-    if (pythonLocation) {
-      core.debug(`pythonLocation is ${pythonLocation}`);
-      const {
-        exitCode,
-        stderr
-      } = await exec.getExecOutput(
-        `poetry env use ${pythonLocation}`,
-        undefined,
-        {ignoreReturnCode: true}
-      );
-
-      if (exitCode) {
-        logWarning(stderr);
+        if (exitCode) {
+          logWarning(stderr);
+        }
       }
-    } else {
-      logWarning('python binaries were not found in PATH');
     }
 
     return [...paths];