diff --git a/main/subunit/APKBUILD b/main/subunit/APKBUILD
index e77f9b1b0bf..736d80b6e7d 100644
--- a/main/subunit/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/subunit/APKBUILD
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ _builddir="$srcdir"/subunit-$pkgver
 prepare() {
 	local i
 	cd "$_builddir"
+	update_config_sub || return 1
 	for i in $source; do
 		case $i in
 		*.patch) msg $i; patch -p1 -i "$srcdir"/$i || return 1;;