diff --git a/sys-apps/opentmpfiles/opentmpfiles-9999.ebuild b/sys-apps/opentmpfiles/opentmpfiles-9999.ebuild
index dacfb43ca35aa..62984cd099c66 100644
--- a/sys-apps/opentmpfiles/opentmpfiles-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/opentmpfiles/opentmpfiles-9999.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ if [[ ${PV} = 9999* ]]; then
 	inherit git-r3
 	EGIT_REPO_URI="git://github.com/openrc/${PN}"
 else
-	SRC_URI=""
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/openrc/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz ->
+		${P}.tar.gz"
 	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 fi