diff --git a/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.26.0.ebuild b/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.26.0.ebuild
index 5344ff2f9a2c4..a0a1e83e9245a 100644
--- a/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.26.0.ebuild
+++ b/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.26.0.ebuild
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ inherit go-module shell-completion systemd
 DESCRIPTION="Main implementation of IPFS"
 HOMEPAGE="https://ipfs.io/ https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/ipfs/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/kubo-source.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}"
 
 LICENSE="Apache-2.0 BSD BSD-2 CC0-1.0 ISC MIT MPL-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
@@ -22,8 +23,6 @@ RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 DOCS=( CHANGELOG.md CONTRIBUTING.md README.md docs/ )
 
-S="${WORKDIR}"
-
 src_compile() {
 	local mygoargs
 	mygoargs=(
diff --git a/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.28.0.ebuild b/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.28.0.ebuild
index 5eb80133d0723..0d66c3d3aeb28 100644
--- a/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.28.0.ebuild
+++ b/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.28.0.ebuild
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ inherit go-module shell-completion systemd
 DESCRIPTION="Main implementation of IPFS"
 HOMEPAGE="https://ipfs.io/ https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/ipfs/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/kubo-source.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}"
 
 LICENSE="Apache-2.0 BSD BSD-2 CC0-1.0 ISC MIT MPL-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
@@ -22,8 +23,6 @@ RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 DOCS=( CHANGELOG.md CONTRIBUTING.md README.md docs/ )
 
-S="${WORKDIR}"
-
 src_compile() {
 	local mygoargs
 	mygoargs=(