diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/README.md b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/README.md
index cfb46e1b57..5bfe9533ef 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/README.md
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ If you have a lot of related packages to update or just aren't quite
 sure what you are getting into please pull down a local copy to work
 from:
 
-    rsync -rtlv rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage ~/
+    rsync -rtlv rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage ~/gentoo-portage
     ./update_ebuilds --commit --portage ~/gentoo-portage app-fun/foo
 
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