diff --git a/repo.postsync.d/sync_gentoo_projects_xml b/repo.postsync.d/sync_gentoo_projects_xml
index 95c84c6..b48f4c5 100644
--- a/repo.postsync.d/sync_gentoo_projects_xml
+++ b/repo.postsync.d/sync_gentoo_projects_xml
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ repository_path="${3}"
 source /lib/gentoo/functions.sh
 
 ebegin "Updating projects.xml"
-wget -q -O "${repository_path}"/metadata/projects.xml https://api.gentoo.org/metastructure/projects.xml
+wget -q -P "${repository_path}"/metadata/ -N https://api.gentoo.org/metastructure/projects.xml
 eend $?