diff --git a/package/pkg-download.mk b/package/pkg-download.mk
index 7cd87c38ff..4163333998 100644
--- a/package/pkg-download.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-download.mk
@@ -75,17 +75,17 @@ export BR_NO_CHECK_HASH_FOR =
 
 ifneq ($(call qstrip,$(BR2_PRIMARY_SITE)),)
 DOWNLOAD_URIS += \
-	-u $(call getschemeplusuri,$(call qstrip,$(BR2_PRIMARY_SITE)/$($(PKG)_DL_SUBDIR)),urlencode) \
-	-u $(call getschemeplusuri,$(call qstrip,$(BR2_PRIMARY_SITE)),urlencode)
+	$(call getschemeplusuri,$(call qstrip,$(BR2_PRIMARY_SITE)/$($(PKG)_DL_SUBDIR)),urlencode) \
+	$(call getschemeplusuri,$(call qstrip,$(BR2_PRIMARY_SITE)),urlencode)
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PRIMARY_SITE_ONLY),)
 DOWNLOAD_URIS += \
-	-u $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(call qstrip,$(1))))
+	$(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(call qstrip,$(1))))
 ifneq ($(call qstrip,$(BR2_BACKUP_SITE)),)
 DOWNLOAD_URIS += \
-	-u $(call getschemeplusuri,$(call qstrip,$(BR2_BACKUP_SITE)/$($(PKG)_DL_SUBDIR)),urlencode) \
-	-u $(call getschemeplusuri,$(call qstrip,$(BR2_BACKUP_SITE)),urlencode)
+	$(call getschemeplusuri,$(call qstrip,$(BR2_BACKUP_SITE)/$($(PKG)_DL_SUBDIR)),urlencode) \
+	$(call getschemeplusuri,$(call qstrip,$(BR2_BACKUP_SITE)),urlencode)
 endif
 endif
 
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ define DOWNLOAD
 		-N '$($(PKG)_RAWNAME)' \
 		-o '$($(PKG)_DL_DIR)/$(notdir $(1))' \
 		$(if $($(PKG)_GIT_SUBMODULES),-r) \
-		$(DOWNLOAD_URIS) \
+		$(foreach uri,$(DOWNLOAD_URIS),-u $(uri)) \
 		$(QUIET) \
 		-- \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_OPTS)