diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index efcf2eaac..85aaea1b3 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ unmount_update() {
 update_centos_repo() {
   # Update the files in the repo
   echo "Syncing new updates to /nsm/repo"
-  rsync -a $AGREPO/repo /nsm/repo
+  rsync -av $AGREPO/* /nsm/repo/
   echo "Creating repo"
   createrepo /nsm/repo
 }