diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.4_p20230401.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.4_p20230401.ebuild
index 1ddd33c22c..1c268c058e 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.4_p20230401.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.4_p20230401.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
-VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH="${BROOT}"/usr/share/openpgp-keys/thomasdickey.asc
+VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/thomasdickey.asc
 inherit flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs multilib multilib-minimal preserve-libs usr-ldscript verify-sig
 
 MY_PV="${PV:0:3}"
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.4_p20230527.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.4_p20230527.ebuild
index 96f95fd80c..007bbc486c 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.4_p20230527.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.4_p20230527.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=8
 # sys-libs/ncurses-compat can be bumped with sys-libs/ncurses as upstream
 # provide a configure option for the ABI version.
 
-VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH="${BROOT}"/usr/share/openpgp-keys/thomasdickey.asc
+VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/thomasdickey.asc
 inherit flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs multilib multilib-minimal preserve-libs usr-ldscript verify-sig
 
 MY_PV="${PV:0:3}"