diff --git a/network/iproute2/iproute2.desc b/network/iproute2/iproute2.desc
index bdc181496..0b8432cca 100644
--- a/network/iproute2/iproute2.desc
+++ b/network/iproute2/iproute2.desc
@@ -39,4 +39,6 @@
 [V] 2.6.31
 [P] X -?---5---9 190.000
 
+# temporal hack to srcdir, hopefully
+[O] srcdir=$pkg/$pkg-$ver
 [D] 2305543531 iproute2-2.6.31.tar.bz2 http://devresources.linuxfoundation.org/dev/iproute2/download/