diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline-6.3/readline63-003 b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline-6.3/readline63-003.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from meta/recipes-core/readline/readline-6.3/readline63-003
rename to meta/recipes-core/readline/readline-6.3/readline63-003.patch
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline_6.3.bb b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline_6.3.bb
index 55964a6cf8..6ba1c186d8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline_6.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline_6.3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require readline.inc
 
-SRC_URI += "file://readline63-003 \
+SRC_URI += "file://readline63-003.patch;striplevel=0 \
             file://readline-dispatch-multikey.patch"
 
 SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "33c8fb279e981274f485fd91da77e94a"