diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libcap-ng/libcap-ng-python_0.8.5.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libcap-ng/libcap-ng-python_0.8.5.bb
index 4790134ae9..ffde03963f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libcap-ng/libcap-ng-python_0.8.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libcap-ng/libcap-ng-python_0.8.5.bb
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ inherit lib_package autotools python3targetconfig
 # drop setuptools when version > 0.8.3 is released; it's needed only for distutils
 DEPENDS += "libcap-ng python3 swig-native python3-setuptools-native"
 
-S = "${WORKDIR}/libcap-ng-${PV}"
-
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-python3"
 
 do_install:append() {
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.inc b/meta/recipes-support/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.inc
index 12b4002d11..e4be030834 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libcap-ng/libcap-ng.inc
@@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
 		    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=e3eda01d9815f8d24aae2dbd89b68b06"
 
-SRC_URI = "https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/libcap-ng-${PV}.tar.gz \
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/stevegrubb/libcap-ng.git;protocol=https;branch=master \
            file://0001-Fix-python-path-when-invoking-py-compile-54.patch \
            "
+SRCREV = "f5d39702622208b3ada064d7b2eaeaf1454c9bd3"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3ba5294d1cbdfa98afaacfbc00b6af9ed2b83e8a21817185dfd844cc8c7ac6ff"
+do_configure:prepend() {
+    touch ${S}/NEWS
+}
 
 EXTRA_OECONF:append:class-target = " --with-capability_header=${STAGING_INCDIR}/linux/capability.h"
 EXTRA_OECONF:append:class-nativesdk = " --with-capability_header=${STAGING_INCDIR}/linux/capability.h"