diff --git a/app-admin/ansible/ansible-2.8.0_rc1.ebuild b/app-admin/ansible/ansible-2.8.0_rc1.ebuild
index cf0287d8b2733..43fb54200196b 100644
--- a/app-admin/ansible/ansible-2.8.0_rc1.ebuild
+++ b/app-admin/ansible/ansible-2.8.0_rc1.ebuild
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ inherit distutils-r1 eutils
 
 DESCRIPTION="Model-driven deployment, config management, and command execution framework"
 HOMEPAGE="https://ansible.com/"
+# don't forget to fix also ${S} in the next bump
 SRC_URI="https://releases.ansible.com/${PN}/${PN}-2.8.0rc1.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3"
@@ -42,6 +43,8 @@ DEPEND="
 		dev-vcs/git
 	)"
 
+S="${WORKDIR}/ansible-2.8.0rc1"
+
 python_compile_all() {
 	if use doc; then
 		cd docs/docsite || die