diff --git a/app-portage/g-octave/g-octave-0.4.1-r7.ebuild b/app-portage/g-octave/g-octave-0.4.1-r7.ebuild
index 12d1e45780d9c..6597908c61197 100644
--- a/app-portage/g-octave/g-octave-0.4.1-r7.ebuild
+++ b/app-portage/g-octave/g-octave-0.4.1-r7.ebuild
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="A tool that generates and installs ebuilds for Octave-Forge"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/rafaelmartins/g-octave"
 
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/downloads/rafaelmartins/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz
-	https://github.com/rafaelmartins/${PN}-db/tarball/${DB_COMMIT} ->
+	https://github.com/rafaelmartins/${PN}-db/archive/${DB_COMMIT}.tar.gz ->
 		${PN}-db-${DB_COMMIT:0:7}.tar.gz
 	https://dev.gentoo.org/~rafaelmartins/distfiles/${PN}-patches-${PVR}.tar.xz"