diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm-aarch64 b/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm-aarch64
index 7f95852b..83ffc519 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm-aarch64
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm-aarch64
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+cd $(dirname $0)
 VERSION=`git describe|cut -d- -f 1`
 NUMCOMMITS=`git describe|cut -d- -f 2`
 if [ "$NUMCOMMITS" != "$VERSION"  ]; then