diff --git a/app-admin/emacs-updater/emacs-updater-1.16.ebuild b/app-admin/emacs-updater/emacs-updater-1.16.ebuild
index 92ee3bdbd77dd..25dc8ffca26ec 100644
--- a/app-admin/emacs-updater/emacs-updater-1.16.ebuild
+++ b/app-admin/emacs-updater/emacs-updater-1.16.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ src_prepare() {
 	fi
 
 	if [[ -n ${EPREFIX} ]]; then
-		sed -i -e "1s:/:${EPREFIX%/}/:" \
-			-e "s:^\([[:upper:]]*=\)/:\1${EPREFIX%/}/:" \
+		sed -i -e "1s:/:${EPREFIX}/:" \
+			-e "s:^\([[:upper:]]*=\)/:\1${EPREFIX}/:" \
 			emacs-updater || die
 	fi
 }