diff --git a/samples/popt/pspec.xml b/samples/popt/pspec.xml
index 1f9e06b7..698947a0 100644
--- a/samples/popt/pspec.xml
+++ b/samples/popt/pspec.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
       ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/popt-1.7.tar.gz
     </Archive>
     <Patches>
-      <Patch compressionType="gz">popt-1.7-uclibc.patch.gz</Patch>
+      <Patch compressionType="gz" level="1">popt-1.7-uclibc.patch.gz</Patch>
     </Patches>
     <BuildDependencies>
       <Dependency versionFrom="1.8"> make </Dependency>